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149 <br /> Report of the Superintendent of Schools <br /> To the School Committee and the <br /> Citizens of the Town Mashpee: <br /> The most exciting and satisfying accomplishment in the <br /> Mashpee Public School System came to everyone involved at <br /> the end of 1974. After a long and frustrating delay, the State <br /> School Building Assistance Bureau and the State Board of <br /> Education both approved of Mashpee's need and right ,to <br /> build a proposed Middle School. In back of this accomplish- <br /> ment is the constructively aggressive support of the entire <br /> community—citizens as well as public officials. Before I re- <br /> port on anything else, therefore, I want to record my sincere <br /> personal thanks for such full and complete support. <br /> Earlier in 1974 a lot of hard and time-consuming work <br /> was done by our School Committee in order to develop the <br /> Middle School Proposal. The Educational Research Council <br /> of America provided an excellent study of our existing and <br /> expected needs for school facilities. Copies of this report are <br /> still available in my office for any interested citizen who <br /> wishes one. The School Committee accepted the ERCA recom- <br /> mendation that Mashpee should build a Middle School for <br /> Grades 4-8 and renovate the existing Samuel G. Davis School <br /> for use as a Primary School, Kindergarten through Grade 3. <br /> Then began the long process that is now so well known: let- <br /> ters and meetings with State officials, open meetings of the <br /> School Committee, another complete review of regionaliz- <br /> ation possibilities that all of us knew were not really possibil- <br /> ities at all. Finally, we are ready to proceed. During 1975 the <br /> townspeople will be hearing much more from the School <br /> Building Committee as an architect is hired, as plans are <br /> drawn, and as construction begins. Once finished, the new <br /> facility will not only relieve the record enrollment of 282 stu- <br /> dents that already overcrowds the Davis Elementary School, <br /> it will also provide for students in Grades 7 and 8 who now <br /> attend the Lyle Junior High School at Otis Air Force Base on <br /> a tenuous basis at best. New counseling and community edu- <br /> cation facilities will become possible for Mashpee as well. <br /> Meanwhile, improvement of the curriculum and of the <br /> whole process of continuous progress education itself has <br />