02/15/1996 SCHOOL COMMITTEE Minutes

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wdp T0: Mashpee School Committee FROM: Mashpee High School Council DATE: February 15, 1 TOPIC: FY97 BUDGET As a group concerned with the educational quality of all of our programs, we would hope that the final school budget would reflect the desire to forward a budget that is necessary to fund all apropriate programs in the town of Mashpee. However because we feel that as a high school council, we have the responsibility to at feast consider those items that it reduced would prove detrimental to the opening of Mashpee High School, we would like to recommend to the School Committee the restoration of the following' positions to the proposed Mashpee School Budget for FY97: (1) .5 secretary (2) Grade 8 teacher (3) Alternative Education teacher It is our feeling that the central office in the new building will be a focal point for both the operation of the new school as well as a reference point for many inside and outside personnel. To enter the high school main office and not be able to get appropriate attention would be very counter- productive ounterproductive to our operation. The Grade 8 position if purely based on numbers may seem like a livable situation on the surface, but if scutinized more closely may be a position that we can ill afford to lose. In an effort to make Mashpee High School attractive to both students and parents, we feel that it is essential to be abbe to offer courses that would be appropriate for all students on either end of the spectrum. To limit students' choices is to say that we are not quite ready to offer what we need. Some projected courses would be in jeopardy if we were to only consider an across the board class size.