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118 Report of the Superintendent of Schools I To the School Committee and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee i Regionalization The Superintendent of Schools would be remiss if he did M not thank Mrs. Carrie Saunders, Mrs. Hazel Oakley, and Ver ;r non Thomas for the many, many hours they devoted to the Regional School District Planning Board. The Town of Mash- pee J ee can be justly proud of their efforts. Your Superintendent of Schools, members of the Mash- . `k pee School Committee, State Officials, and others believed then and now that the answer to Mashpee's school housing problem was and is Regionalization with Sandwich from an educational point of view for young people and an economic one for taxpayers. The Special Town Meeting held in Mash- pee and Sandwich in June of 1969 demonstrated conclusively that Regionalization between Mashpee and Sandwich was the wish of the Mashpee voters but not the wish of the Sandwich voters. { With the defeat of Regionalization, it was necessary for your Superintendent to explore other avenues to assure the °° young people of Mashpee Quality Education" now and in the I` o M sh ee and Falmouth School int meeting of the a future. A g p J x Superintendents was scheduled in Falmouth Committees and Sup �. during the summer of 1969 to review the school housing prob- lem in Mashpee. The Mashpee School Committee requestedF'' the Falmouth School Committee to accept all Mashpee chit- :;: dren in grades seven through twelve on a tuition basis. The request was reviewed in detail and a verbal agreement reached that: 1. Falmouth would continue to accept Mashpee pupils in grades nine through twelve on a tuition basis as has been done for the past forty years. 2. Falmouth would educate Mashpee pupils in grades seven and eight one day in the future on a tuition basis when needed additional classrooms were built in the Town of Falmouth. MEMO.—