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Show gram offered. I belive we could achieve more quality with less quantity. "More for less" may not work with usual use of such as taxes or personal income, but I believe it would with quantity of programs offered offer-ed theMilfordHighSchool track team of this year is the best present evidence I can think of! 8 By Supt. Lynn Haslem B Superintendent of Schools More with less" words with meaning! We are continually faced with interests desiringmore activity program of various kinds in the schools. Some are justified i.e. some selective girls programs to result in an activity offering for girls which would be somewhat equal to those of the boys. Others are not justified i.e. golf, baseball, base-ball, tennis, and track, all at the same time of year, in the spring (or fall, baseball, base-ball, football, and crosscountry cross-country at the same time in the fall). I am one of those who believe we cannot "do all for all". In our small schools we can, and do, offer broad programs for- student participation, par-ticipation, but we try to do so within bounds of good reason. 'Sometimes patron insistence prevents the exercise of reasonable rea-sonable judgement in quantity quan-tity of programs offered. A case -in -point is offered in support of this limiting view. This year at Milford High School a decision was made to place the spring athletic ath-letic emphasis (boys) on the track program. This meant that team efforts were term -inated In golf and baseball while retaining a minimal effort in tennis. The results re-sults are gratifying our team at M.HJS. placed third in State (on a wet track). When one considers that this is from a field of 31 poten-tail poten-tail 1-A schools, most of whom participate and that MHS is one of the smaller of those schools who competed, it certainly speaks well of the decision, the school team, and the coaching efforts of Mr. Lee. I have no argument, with the value of any sport or other competitive activity. I do have argument with quantity of programs if in the process we have to give up quality from sheer lack of numbers to participate. I do also have argument with the excessive missing of school required both by participants par-ticipants and advisors when we try to go too broad. Some sports such as golf, tennis, and baseball are lifetime life-time sports. They can be taught in PE classes or in intra -mural programs and then practiced in the various settings of community competitions com-petitions outside the schools. I also question that we need 18 basketball games, 15 wrestling meets or 10-12 football games In any given season. At least one -third less would be just as adequate ade-quate from a competitive standpoint (if statewide similarity sim-ilarity were achieved). What a difference coud be achieved in classroom Instructional time, fuel costs, teacher supervision su-pervision distractions, and in some cases quality of pro- |