The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-03-19
WRANGELL WILL NOT
 SEND CONTESTANTS
 TO INTERSCHOOL MEET

OWlnS to the present. eldDOTdIe organization of the Inter-School Meet and the fact that major points are given for events in which only two or, at the most, three schools of Southeastern Alaska can enter, the PIT. A. Executive Board decid- ed at a recent meeting not to fi- nance attendance at the Meet to be held in Ketchikan. Thic action | was endorsed at the regular meet ing of the PIT. A. last week. Supt. C. E. Hagie of the Wrangell School is a member of the Board of Con trol but did not see the program until it was published. While the Wrangell school could have taken part in some of the events, it can not compete with schools which have domestic science, manual train ing, orchestra, and oratorical training in the high school. The declamatory contests and oral and written English are given a lesser grading according to the present arrangement and the only part of the Meet in which the local school could get a standing would be the Elementary Scholastic group. The following letter in regard to the Meet from Supt. Hagie to the chair man of the Board of Control was sent this week:
 Wrangell, Alaska, March IS, 1925. MT. Harold A. Snyder,
 Chairman, Interscholastic Board of Control,
 Ketchikan, Alaska.
 My dear MT. Snyder:
 Replying to your communica-
 tion of the 9th inst, in which you state that if there are "any
 small details to be changed in
 the rules and regulations they
 could be settled by the Board of
 Control the day before the Inter
 School Meet" I will advise that
 all the details of your letter
 have been carefully considered
 by the administration here and
 by the local Parent-Teacher Asso-
 citation, which is the source of
 our funds for attending the
 Meet
 At the largest PIT. A. gather
 ing during the year it was
 unanimously voted last night
 that, as far as the PIT. A. is
 concerned, Wrangell will not be
 represented at the 1925 Meet.
 This resolution was not inter-
 preted to apply to representa-
 tion at the Pr. A. meeting, but
 to school contestants only.
 The objections referred to in
 regard to rules and regulations
 are not to "small details", as
 you have surmised but to funda-
 mental principles which we
 could scarcely hope to have ad-
 justed satisfactorily on the day prior to the meet, in view of the
 fact that Wrangell would stand alone against the two larger schools in her class
 There is a strong feeling here that the entire program is en- tirely too elaborate for all but the two largest schools of the district and, furthermore, that even the maximum point weight ing in the scale of awards have been placed only on such events as the larger schools alone can participate in, or in which they have an altogether undue natural advantage over the smaller schools of the class. The general fleeing also prevails that too
 much emphasis is being placed upon the less important phases of the schools work. Debating alone has been placed on a par with the spectacular" events. As stated in a previous com munuication. had a set of rules, similar to those published, been adopted after discussion and agreement by the entire Board of Control, with opportunity for all schools concerned to know what was going on and express their approval or disapproval, Wrangell would, without ques- tion, have unhesitatingly recog- nized the provisions as the will of the majority, and have been
 willing to cooperate whole-heart- 1 edly flor better or for worse''. Trusting that the spirit of
 Wrangell's action may not be l misunderstood am