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The Rappahannock County High School Parent-Teachers Association recently sponsored an essay contest among students enrolled in the R. H. S. entitled. "What a New High School Would Mean To Us." This is the third of eight of the best essays submitted.
By NANCY J. ZINN
This school building erected fifty years ago, no longer supplies the demands of modern times.
This is a changing world. The farmers now farm with tractors and similiar machinery instead of horses. Orchard and dairy farmers also use modern up-to-date equipment! Homes built in the same year as this school are now remodeled with such modem conveniences as centval heating and fluorescent lighting. Why then have these farmers and housewives who have demanded modem conveniences failed to give their children modem schools for modem education? j
We. the students of Rappahannock, have developed a complex, we are ashamed to Hold our heads up in the sight of students of neighboring schools. Why1 should we of Rappahannock lack to entertain school as F. H. A. and F! ations? Why should in our so<ys nartidpation should we stand in line in the rain watting to have our lunches served ? Why should we lack a laboratory, a nlace for training in music, and sufficient economic^ equipment? Whv do many of the outstanding residents of our communitv find it necessary to take from our school and modem schools for of high! school? WHY? Because our school is a horse and buggv school.
We need a new school, a school we acn be proud of.
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