What should and should not be consolidated.

There are state incentives being given to financially troubled schools. These incentives tend to encourage consolidation. Strategies to curb school spending involving making one mega school out of many little schools may well actually be worth a try in more rural areas where kids have to be bussed anyway. In the city of Portland consolidation only threatens Portland communities. It will not solve any of the crowded classrooms, it will not save money. We will not be able to quantify the impact of consolidation on a given area in a given year. There is no way of demonstrating how the long term cost of decommission our neighborhood schools has undermined the Portland communities that had existed for decades. It is for this reason I am taking a strong stand against consolidation. I think it undermines Portland richest commodity, that is its communities. Please give me your feedback.