{"id":3772,"date":"2011-02-16T07:45:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T12:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2011-02-16T12:11:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T17:11:26","slug":"morning-read-2-in-glens-falls-fewer-kids-fewer-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/02\/16\/morning-read-2-in-glens-falls-fewer-kids-fewer-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read 2:  In Glens Falls, fewer kids, fewer sports?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Glens Falls Post Star is reporting this morning that the city&#8217;s school district is considering trimming the numbers of sports offerings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/article_91cdbc6c-397f-11e0-9900-001cc4c03286.html\">According to Omar Ricardo Aquije&#8217;s report<\/a>, the Glens Falls City School District has 600 fewer kids than in 1994, but offers the same sports choices.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Committee members said the district offeres too many sports for too few students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our population is getting to the point where our pool of athletes is being spread too thin,&#8221; Herrick-Agnew said.<\/p>\n<p>Committee members, though, disagreed on how sports should be adjusted to meet current enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>One committee member said sport programs should be cut when the number of participants reaches a certain low. But other members said the committee should make recommendations now to phase out certain sports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are the kinds of conversations that nearly every school district in the North Country is having.\u00a0 Fewer dollars and fewer kids mean more tough choices.\u00a0 What are you seeing in your kids&#8217; school district?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glens Falls Post Star is reporting this morning that the city&#8217;s school district is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5625],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3773,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}