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A good compromise
THE STATE BOARD of Education’s decision to grant Rappahannock County a year’s extension on starting up a kindergarten program appears to be a sensible compromise. There are some indications that a drop in elementary school enrollment in the county will make it possible to incorporate a kindergarten program without constructing additional classroom space, and without increasing the overall instructional staff. Any way that a program can be instituted without incurring extra costs ought to be encouraged.
We are even more interested in the efforts of Del. D. French Slaughter Jr. in behalf of legislation which would offer rural counties such as Rappahannock the option of operating an expanded summer, pre-school program, rather than a full-scale kindergarten program. This still strikes us as tile most promising long-range solution to the State School Board’s insistence that pre-schooling opportunities be offered, especially since the state hasn’t chosen to back up its mandates with badly needed financial assistance. The kindergarten dilemma highlights what is wrong with so many programs dictated from Richmond or Washington for Idealities throughout the state and nation. It is one thing to sit in Olympian remoteness and say thus and such is an ideal that must be met, but it is quite another to have to be on the scene when ways must be found to pay for all these grand programs.□
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