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From Page 1 near the Culpeper-Rappahannock county line and stated in her letter to Superintendent Norton that her child had friends in the Rappahannock system and that she felt the schools were better in Rappahannock. She volunteered to pay tuition. She said the child read at a tenth grade level but was deficient in math.

Norton said he had requested information and records from the schools that the child previously attended and was told that the boy had been enrolled in parent-organized “free schools” in Washington, D. C. and had only attended traditional school at A. S. Richardson in Culpeper for half a year. She withdrew the child from A. S. Richardson because she felt he had not received enough individual attention, according to Norton.

“I don’t know what to recommend,” Norton admitted. “I don’t know what we have to offer that Culpeper doesn’t in the way of individual attention.. .for a child who has not been in a structured school situation.” Norton said that the mother had visited the School Board offices with her son and had spoken to Assistant Superintendent T. A. Fleetwood.

NORTON added that grade placement for the child would require a complete testing program unless die pertinent information was released by Culpeper. He pointed out that the parent would have to agree to the record release.

“We had two students last year

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