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want to overbuild but will need some capital expansion during the next few years.” School Board member E.N. Montague asked Norton to explain to the Supervisors what happens when they “zero out” a category. “When you omit entirely funds for one category, like capital improvements it means we can’t buy an additional* desk, filing cabinet or typewriter,” the superintendent said. George Graham, president of the Rappahannock Education Association, read a prepared statement, supporting Norton’s request that part of the budget cut be restored. “We, the teachers of Rappahannock County, were much distressed to learn that the school board budget...had been cut to the degree it was. Along with this feeling of distress was the ‘Catch-22’ feeling that the Supervisors probably had to cut from the budget that, they no doubt disliked doing it as much as we disliked it being done.”
Graham wanted a restoration of the funds that would “restore the school budget item called capital outlay, which many people seem to think just means new buildings. They are wrong; it also means shades, pencil shapeners, electrical and plumbing repairs, and desks. It is impossible to have any sort of education, let alone top ‘quality education; without some sort of funds of capital outlay. We are not even requesting that money be added to this unit for a modular classroom, though the most naive optimists would have to admit that the Rappahannock High School is grossly overcrowded in many classes.”
“CLASS LOADS are good at 25 per pupils per classroom, manageble at 30 and virtually impossible, with present teaching methods,
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