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Page 136 hay 27, 1975 Hr. Rotberg_ asked. the committee to use the $28,600 remaining in the Summer Tdorkshon budget for a Curriculum Retource Center. He recommended. that the administration submit a proposal for this purpose at the next Mrs. Swanson thought the money should be held for an in-service training program. CURRICULUM RESOURCE CENTER Mrs. Berchtold thought the committee should. discuss Mr. Rotberg's suggestion and then vote on it. Mr. Rotberg replied that the committee had already voted for a resource center and that funds were still needed. The money mentioned above could be used for this purpose. • Dr. Fobert told the committee that if they can vote to spend the money for a center, the proposal will be developed. Mr. Rotberg suggested placing this subject on the agenda for a future meeting. A letter from Mrs. Nancy Madden, A Hstings parent, was discussed by the CLASS SIZE school committee. Mrs. Madden complained about class size for next year's HASTINGS SCHOOL second graders as being too large (27-28) . She asked that the school committee support a Hastings request for a combined second-third grade class which would restore the second grades to a manageable size (22-23) . Dr. Fobert said that we have used a rough guide that classes would not go over 29 and added that if the school committee wished to set a policy lowering that limit, the administration would abide by it. He also felt the letter was based on premature information. Replying to a question from Mrs. Berchtold about enrollment projections information, Dr. Fobert said the final subcommittee will meet next week and. that the information will be available shortly after. ENROLLMENT PROJ .CTIONS The Committee to Study Guidance at the High School presented its final report to the school committee this evening. Present were Paul Marshall, Chairman Rene Cochin, David Durand, Bruce Gordon, Marjorie Middleton, Elizabeth Zelesnick and Richard Zeoli. Robert Dentler, an original member of the committee, was not present due to other commitments. GUIDANCE REPORT Mr. Marshall read a prepared statement which summarized the report. He said. that eight months after the organizational meeting was held, the committee concluded that it was impossible to review the guidance program in isolation from the rest of the high school environment and the rest of the school environment. This job, it was felt, was beyond. the charge of his committee. The members concluded that success or failure of the guidance activity was not solely under the control of the guidance counselors and their director. It was also felt that some of the criticism directed at the guidance program was a manifestation of general dissatisfaction with the educational experience at the high school. The major conclusion in the report was that the high school guidance program is not well defined. Such a program should: (1) provide a set of goals and. objectives with some sens of priority among them; (2) provide a statement of how- school-wide ho-school-wide resources will be utilized to accomplish these goals including an organization plan; (3) develop a plan for measuring performance in terms of these goals and determine how effectively the resources have been used.