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Drop outs - a currently familiar ^descriptive phrase is an area where we rate high; fouith highest county in the staje^ at 8.2%! Anybody proud of this? Also, but 16.6% of our high school graduates further their education as com pared to an average of 44% of all Virginia counties. When we bring in the city public high school graduates into the Virginia picture, the percentage increases to 46.8% getting more knowledge, more earning power.
Four years ago there were 92 students entering Rappahannock High as freshmen (48 boys and 44 girls). Of these but 20 boys and 23 girls graduated last June. What happened to the other 49? Of the original 92, 16 dropped out. The others either moved or simply didn’t re-enroll as sophomores, juniors or seniors. V One teacher expressed the belief that the greatest weakness in our educational system is over crowding in the primary grades. Teachers are over loaded, can’t give the individual attention needed by the so-called slow bloomer (children who have the ability but are a bit slow to catch on). This teacher also maintains these youngsters get progressively further and further behind their contemporaries until they get completely discouraged, stop trying, and drop out of school. Being interested in 4-H (which members are 9-19 years of age), about a year ago I made some studies on the number of our youth we were reaching and not reaching through this media of learn ing by doing. At that time there were 316 Rappahannock youth aged 9-19 years not in school and not being reached by any sort of educational
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