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From Page 7 ‘ability to pay’ ranking of Rappahannock. We’re 87th in per capita income, but we rate 8th in the percentage of support we give to our schools. The vote in favor of Delegate Slaughter’s bill reflects a change in the outlook of the Delegates; there certainly doesn’t seem to be any clear mandate to ram these things down everybody’s throat.”
In answer to a question, Norton estimated that some 75-80 Rappahannock children will be eligible for kindergarten when it begins, but that something less than this number will actually attend. At the present time, the Virginia kindergarten program is the parents’ prerogative.
‘‘My guess is that in a year or two it will be mandatory and you will have to send your child out each morning whether you want to or not,” stated Supervisor H. B. Wood.
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