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of! that contemporaries. The new school system with better facilities, for a complete education at the high school level may very probably bring in families with school age children-and beep the county young people closer to home. * '
A current social problem which the new school would eradicate is the too close association of elementary and high kchool age children. Each group has a definite and obvious detrimental effect jot the other particularly when it is a question of sharing playground and gym facilities as in the case^at present. 1
Another social aspect of the situation is exemplified in talk which was quite wide-spread several years .ago. Had the Rappahannock school system been crippled by the condemnation of the present school building in Washington (and according to the authorities only a very few' more years remain to the structure) there was a Chance that for | reasons of state economy the county might have been divided into several portions and assimilated into! neighboring counties. In that easel, Rappahannock as a social unit would simply have ceased to exist.
The cultural benefits are selfevident* ' " -J- . 1 ’ A better, more fully equipped school equals a better education and: while the words culture and education are far from synonymous, we must agree that a minimal degree of education is necessary to-the simpl,. existence of cultut.
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