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Sports were a big part of my childhood growing up. It allows for kids to meet in a school supervised setting outside of the classroom. For some kids it's a needed activity that allows them to get some physical activity plus sports teaches a lot about life and having to cope with adversity. Each year more and more kids are leaving the Warwick school district. The school my kids go to have taken more kids from Warwick and they welcome it and will take as many as they can handle and we pay for it. Parents are pulling their kids and putting them in charter schools, putting them in different districts, going to private school and even home schooling. You make parents have to pay an exorbitant amount for public school sports and you will see an exodus from the Warwick school district. Like it or not sports plays an important role in a lot of kids lives. Limiting sports to only those who can afford it, could be the straw that breaks the camels back for a lot of parents but hey it's only sports, schools are meant to be prisons of education and learning. No fun allowed. They already limit PE and recess so why not just do away with all forms of physical activity.

The cuts are going to be necessary I can't argue against it but I think they need to be done gradually. The administrators and teachers are going to get their salaries so the people who lose out are everyone else mainly the students.. A lot of people are saying that this isn't the time for finger pointing but I think finger pointing is part of the process of figuring out what happened and making sure that those who made such poor choices aren't allowed to be positions of power again. It's why we have elections.