By Barbara Polichetti
WARWICK, R.I. - More than 300 parents, teachers and residents showed up at Warwick Veterans High School Thursday night to speak on the proposed closing of Gorton Junior High, but an hour into the meeting they were still waiting.
School administrators opened the meeting with a presentation showing the factors that had led them to look at closing a school, but the audience was growing increasingly restless as charts too small to read were shown on a screen.
Supt. Richard D'Agostino said that closing a junior high school will enable the district to put more money into programs that directly benefit students rather than continuing to support older buildings that are operating at less than 50-percent capacity.