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Mr. Barham is has entered his voice in the issue of paying for and constructing two new High Schools at the projected cost of $400 million and according to him: “That would mean a tax increase of $550 per year for the owner of an average home in Warwick (valued at $336,415 according to Zillow). Bottom line: Construction costs are skyrocketing, but the longer we wait to build, the more costly it will be. Let’s do it!” The current Warwick School Budget is $173.9 million and the current Warwick School population is 8,578 students K thru 12 which mean that each student costs the taxpayers $20,225. - this year. Warwick students are testing in the bottom 50% of public schools in RI. (All this according to local websites). In contrast, Bishop Hendricken High School currently charges $15,750.- for 12th grade tuition with an optional program cost of $20,750.-.

Mark Levin, in his informative book “American Marxism” has said: “Children in classrooms across America are being indoctrinated with Critical Race Theory, white children are taught that they were born privileged and advantaged, and students study lessons prepared by the disgraceful New York Times ‘1619 Project’. Black Lives Matter, an openly Marxist and often violent organization that actively seeks the elimination of capitalism and the American governing system, is celebrated. Moreover, in school district after school district, teachers are being trained to confront their white privilege and taught to reform their knowledge of history to accommodate CRT…Education is being infused with a Marxist-oriented, extremely divisive, racist and intersectional ideology, where teachers and students alike are compelled to participate in and embrace their own indoctrination.” So now it’s not only students being indoctrinated with Marxist dogma, it’s the teachers as well. And Mr. Barham endorses the idea of voting for a bond issue that will increase the tax burden on the taxpayer with the promise that testing scores will improve. Sure they will along with the Party indoctrination.

How about an alternative idea like giving each student a voucher for $20k and let the parents decide where to send their children to school? New schools would spring up all over Warwick and freedom would reign supreme!

Erik Thorp