... country participated in varsity high school athletics (2004-05 NFHS High School Athletics Participation Survey). As the Plainedge Board of Education, I know that it is your job to try and make a decision regarding the continuation of extracurricular athletics at Plainedge High School. You each must ask yourself: will the students be negatively affected if school sports are discontinued? Although it may not perfectly fit in the budget to continue to sponsor and pay for sports, there are other ways for these activities to be funded. It is up to you, the members of the Plainedge Board of Education, to decide whether athletics are significant enough to find the means to fund these activities. Supreme Court Justice Byron White once said, "Sports and other forms of vigorous physical activity provide educational experience which cannot be duplicated in the classroom. They are an uncompromising laboratory in which we must think ...

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