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lime*, offers no possibility for tltended Me. There is no epooe in the present building which may be satisfactorily used as a science laboratory. Proper science instruction must include a laboratory if the full advantages of such courses are to bo realised. The auditorium is inadequate and, as aforementioned poorly placed.
When the two high schools were brought together, the School Board added business education to the curriculum. This met a long felt need in Rappahannock county and was a step in the right direction towards providing adequate program of instruction for high School pupils. If the desirable outcomes of this program are to be realised, adequate space and equipment are essential. The School Boand hopes to provide adequate shop space so that a gens eral shop program can be made available to any boy in the high school, but present facilities make this impossible except in s limited number of cases.
The question hss often been asked, “Why not add to the present facilities, instead of planning s new and separate building?". This question has been discussed for years by the School Board, and the Supervisor of School Buildings, State Department. of Education, has made two inspection trips to determine the feasibility of such an addition. Ha recommended definitely against an addition and presented some of the following facta for his reason: The hasting plant is insufficient in either building to take care of an addition of sufficient sise to provide the additional space needed now to operate a high school program efficiently. Enlarging the auditor rium and making the structural changes necessary would involve a considerable outlay of money and building spaces in an addition immediately behind the auditorium (would be inefficient due to improper lighting. This latter condition could be eliminated only by the use of a corridor and the masonry walls at the rear of toe present' auditorium and toilets could not be used as a part of the addition. In other words, any addition would in reality be a saparate building connected to the present building by means of a corridor. The kitchen and cafeteria facilities iq the present building are scarcely adequate to serve
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