Letter To Editor

Letter To Editor

I don’t believe in public schools -—that is, as they now are. I believe in equal oportunities for education, yes; but I think that the schools should be for those capable of taking “book learning,” and let those whose talents do not fall along that line be apprenticed to a trade. I think that schools should not have to lower standards constantly to meet the lower' level of intelligence, and that the brighter children should not be held back to the pace of their slower companions.

It appears that the “ten per - cent” you mentioned in an edi-. torial last week—those who wanted the Latin and grammar schooling—are the neglected students in these present school.

A school diploma should mean honest accomplishment or else it should read: ‘This certifies that (and fill in the name) has sat in Rappahannock High School for eleven years. The school assumes no responsibility for what he (or she) has not learned.”

A Reader.

Letter to Editor

An interesting proposal was made by a voter and taxpayer in last week’s paper: the proposal to take Rappahannock High School graduates to Front Royal. What leason is there to believe that the parents want their children to ride 15 to 18 miles farther than they are already traveling? Or upon what authority does one presume that Front Royal would be willing or able to take these Rappahannock pupils into a Warren County school already “bursting its seams”?

Who arrived at the f 2 increase * given as the tax to be paid in case the proposed building project goes through in Rappahannock? . is not this. Jumping the gun”on

been made? No plan for a school building has been accepted, as yet; no bid has been made, no contract has been written.

Another interesting statement was that 921,000 had been spent this past year in Rappahannock to make the county jail “escape „ Proof.” If a county can afford to spend 921,000 to house approxl: mately a half-dozen or so' miscreants a year, it can well afford to help build a high school to ae- •