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By DAPHNE McCULLOUGH
ACCORDING to School Board Chairman E.N. Montague, rumors have been circulating through Rappahannock County to the effect that the school system has been inefficiently and poorly administered. Montague presented information at Tuesday’s School Board meeting in an attempt to refute the charges.
If evaluated objectively, Montague maintained that the Rappahannock School system would rank as one of the best rural systems in the state. “We do have effective instruction,” said Montague, noting that room for improvement also existed.
He conceded that graduating seniors were “ineffective in expression, in ability to read, in ability to figure,” but said that this situation existed everywhere. “This is something that must be turned around and I think that it can be,” not overnight but in five to ten years if work in that direction starts now, Montague said.
Citizens are not always conversant with the issues, he contended. “They don’t have much comprehension of the complexities and difficulties of operating a school system.” Rules, regulations and mandated programs from the state have increased steadily, requiring a “plethora, of reports,” noted Montague.
“Somehow, it’s getting around the county that the Rappahannock School system is not effective or not as effective as it should be... It’s as effective as any rural sch
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