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Editor:
Your article and the letter about the school board decision are, as usual, interesting. Also, as usual, one question brings up others and all are liberally smothered in various emotions, rationales, philosophies, and theories. It is a pity that the ones most affected by the decision will be children, whose opinions were not heard at all. The next largest groups to be directly affected are the faculties of the local schools. They had their brief five minutes and no further attention was paid them either by the board, the audience at the meeting or the Rappahannock News article.
I realize that there is a possibility that all taxpayers, including myself, might have a tax change. This was not the impression I received from most speakers, however. Several speakers suggested savings could be made by combining positions and then applying the savings to aiding the classroom teachers. No mention was made of returning any of this “saved” money to anyone.
While I am on the subject of “saved” money, I was interested to note that no speaker asked the teachers which direction they thought the money would be best directed. It seems that it would be reasonable to at least ask. After all, they would be in the ideal position to judge. The consensus of opinion among the teachers was that the disciplinary atmosphere of the school was a more important consideration than a possible savings widely scattered about the schools.
The implication was made that the schools need better facilities and materials to compete with
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