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John Stark, I share your concern about Achievement. That's why I fully supported the formation of an Achievement subcommittee a year or so ago. When one looks at the demographic make-up of Warwick and its socio-economics, we should regularly be, in my opinion, in the top 5-8 districts in the state. That said, this year's Toll Gate valedictorian is heading to Dartmouth and was a National Merit Scholar. their Salutatorian is attending Brown. Last year (or the year before, I can't remember right now) Pilgrim's valedictorian attended MIT So while I agree that three examples do not a case make, I think it can be done. But when this district for decades taught science to its elementary students twice a week and then once a week and our science scores tanked as those elementary students became secondary students we shouldn't be surprised. When the Math curriculum we used was insufficient and didn't teach all of the standards that we'd test them on and our secondary scores tanked we shouldn't be surprised. It wasn't too many years ago when a third grader at school X did not learn everything that their counterpart did at school Y the next neighborhood over. Both of those are finally now being addressed but, as you know, change won;t happen overnight. Someone once told me that our problem was what we teach and how we teach it and I couldn't agree with that more.