The School Committee just voted to reject the plan to repurpose our school. Warwick Veterans Memorial High School is staying open and our community remains exactly where it belongs. I am feeling incredible relief that we fought for the future of our hallways and won.
January 31, 2014
Final supporters
The Long Term School Committee of Warwick Public Schools has proposed a plan to the School Committee about the declining finance and student population throughout Warwick middle schools and high schools. They have proposed a plan to be voted on December 10th, 2013 whether or not this plan should be put into place. We must put a stop to this plan so we can not only save the actual budgets throughout the Warwick public school system, but also the Warwick Veterans High School community that would be destroyed if this plan were to take place next year!
The details of the plan were not addressed at either meeting held December 2nd or December 3rd that were to explain the details of this plan. In brief, over two hours they explained the plan. This plan is to have Gorton Jr. High and Aldrich Jr. High closed and to have Warwick Veterans Memorial High School repurposed as asuperjunior high school. This would then mean the high school students from Warwick Vets would be split unevenly with boundaries not spoken by the long term committee to both Toll Gate (with less sports facilities, less accessibility, less resources, and less space) and to Pilgrim (in worse physical condition, worse school structure, busier area, and worse school facilities).
This plan has many cons to it, along with very few pros. It is highly recommended that if you want to put a stop to this plan, you sign the petition on the Sign the Petition page. Also, view the Pros/Cons page to have a complete view of what we are gaining and losing out of this plan.
Remember, the Long Term committee was supposed to belong term, not 5 years, but 15 years. They were supposed to propose 3 plans, not 1. They were supposed to provide factual evidence and professional data of the budget increases/decreases for the buildings, advancements, closings, reconstructions, etc., and they didn't. And finally, they should think not only about numbers, but about people and the community.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
December 10, 2013
December 7, 2013
We are approaching five hundred signatures and this momentum is exactly what gets the school committee to finally look at us. Please reach out to your neighbors right now to push us over that mark before the upcoming vote.
December 6, 2013
Seeing one hundred people rally behind this cause gives me so much hope for the future of our halls. My heart aches at the thought of losing Vets but knowing I have this many allies makes me feel less alone in the fight to protect our community.
Reached 100 supporters
December 5, 2013
180 Comments
There is always a flux in attendance, closing Vets will not solve this problem. Putting students in trailers and over crowding classrooms at Tollgate and Pilgrim is not the answer.
Will there now be an overcrowded Pilgrim and Tollgate. Students will most certainly feel the brunt. I went to Vets during double sessions. Started sports, etc. at 8 am. School began around noon, returned home in the dark around 5:30. Long day and still had to study !!!!!
I graduated from Vets in 1998 and my son is now in the 10th grade here at Vets. I want him to stay where he is comfortable. To desperate these kids is awf as well as putting them into a rival school where they won't feel welcome. I want my child as well as his friends to stay at Vets and graduate together.
Warwick vets is more than just a school. it is a community and if it is closed down you will be removing hundreds of teenagers from the community of relationships that they have built with friends and faculty. this is not going to help save money. it is going to cost more to bus all of these kids around the city.
WVMHS gave me the tools and the foundation to succeed throughout my life. It was a fine school then (Class of '65) as I'm sure it is today. Do not deprive the current and future students of that community the lifelong positive impact that it will have on their lives.
Don't close
It's unfair to the students already at the school to have to continue their education somewhere else because of money. Honestly, education should be more important than money.
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The School Committee just voted to reject the plan to repurpose our school. Warwick Veterans Memorial High School is staying open and our community remains exactly where it belongs. I am feeling incredible relief that we fought for the future of our hallways and won.
January 31, 2014
Final supporters
The Long Term School Committee of Warwick Public Schools has proposed a plan to the School Committee about the declining finance and student population throughout Warwick middle schools and high schools. They have proposed a plan to be voted on December 10th, 2013 whether or not this plan should be put into place. We must put a stop to this plan so we can not only save the actual budgets throughout the Warwick public school system, but also the Warwick Veterans High School community that would be destroyed if this plan were to take place next year!
The details of the plan were not addressed at either meeting held December 2nd or December 3rd that were to explain the details of this plan. In brief, over two hours they explained the plan. This plan is to have Gorton Jr. High and Aldrich Jr. High closed and to have Warwick Veterans Memorial High School repurposed as asuperjunior high school. This would then mean the high school students from Warwick Vets would be split unevenly with boundaries not spoken by the long term committee to both Toll Gate (with less sports facilities, less accessibility, less resources, and less space) and to Pilgrim (in worse physical condition, worse school structure, busier area, and worse school facilities).
This plan has many cons to it, along with very few pros. It is highly recommended that if you want to put a stop to this plan, you sign the petition on the Sign the Petition page. Also, view the Pros/Cons page to have a complete view of what we are gaining and losing out of this plan.
Remember, the Long Term committee was supposed to belong term, not 5 years, but 15 years. They were supposed to propose 3 plans, not 1. They were supposed to provide factual evidence and professional data of the budget increases/decreases for the buildings, advancements, closings, reconstructions, etc., and they didn't. And finally, they should think not only about numbers, but about people and the community.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
December 10, 2013
December 7, 2013
We are approaching five hundred signatures and this momentum is exactly what gets the school committee to finally look at us. Please reach out to your neighbors right now to push us over that mark before the upcoming vote.
December 6, 2013
Seeing one hundred people rally behind this cause gives me so much hope for the future of our halls. My heart aches at the thought of losing Vets but knowing I have this many allies makes me feel less alone in the fight to protect our community.
Reached 100 supporters
December 5, 2013
180 Comments
They state the only reason veterans memorial is being changed to a junior high is because it's more economical than to change pilgrim; where are the numbers? And the fact that our name represents the memorization of soldiers that have fault for our country, yet that apparently has no meaning either.
There is always a flux in attendance, closing Vets will not solve this problem. Putting students in trailers and over crowding classrooms at Tollgate and Pilgrim is not the answer.
Will there now be an overcrowded Pilgrim and Tollgate. Students will most certainly feel the brunt. I went to Vets during double sessions. Started sports, etc. at 8 am. School began around noon, returned home in the dark around 5:30. Long day and still had to study !!!!!
I graduated from Vets in 1998 and my son is now in the 10th grade here at Vets. I want him to stay where he is comfortable. To desperate these kids is awf as well as putting them into a rival school where they won't feel welcome. I want my child as well as his friends to stay at Vets and graduate together.
Warwick vets is more than just a school. it is a community and if it is closed down you will be removing hundreds of teenagers from the community of relationships that they have built with friends and faculty. this is not going to help save money. it is going to cost more to bus all of these kids around the city.
WVMHS gave me the tools and the foundation to succeed throughout my life. It was a fine school then (Class of '65) as I'm sure it is today. Do not deprive the current and future students of that community the lifelong positive impact that it will have on their lives.
Don't close
It's unfair to the students already at the school to have to continue their education somewhere else because of money. Honestly, education should be more important than money.
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They state the only reason veterans memorial is being changed to a junior high is because it's more economical than to change pilgrim; where are the numbers? And the fact that our name represents the memorization of soldiers that have fault for our country, yet that apparently has no meaning either.