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be that you feel the school system is doing all right, and you leave it all up to them. If so, how did you decide this? How can you tell? without having some basis to compare? Well, let’s look at just one area of comparison. Lets look at Rappahannock by comparing it with its neighboring counties only, and lets examine how we stand on: 1) Percent of teachers who are college graduates;2)Percent of teachers holding sub-standard certificates,and 3)Percentof High School Student “drop-outs.1’ Of the neighboring counties, of Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison, Page and Warren, Rappahannock has the lowest pexcentage of teachers who hold college degrees (59%). In the state of Virginia, Rappahannock ranks down the list 86 of the 96 reported counties in the latest report by the Virginia Education Association.
But if Rappahannock is near the bottom of the list on that count it is near the top of the list, ranking 9th, on the county with the most teachers holding sub-standard certificates. No ajoining county has as large a percent of its teach ers classed as having substandard qualifications (13.6%). Now for a glance at the High-School “Drop-out" with our neighbors, Here only, can we point to an ajoining county having a higher rate of dropouts; Culpeper exceeds by having 7/8% of its High School students (White and Colored) drop out, which places it 88th in the State. Rappahannock makes a better showing here by placing 63rd, but it is still not in competition with Page, Madison and Fauquier
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