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By DAPHNE McCULLOUGH
Rappahannock Near* Staff Writer
For the first time in almost half a century, Mary Botts Quaintance will not be greeting Rappahannock students when school opens in the fall. After 48 years in the county school system, she retired as principal of the elementary school on July 1.
There aren’t many Rappahannock natives under 60 who went through public schools here without knowing Mrs. Quaintance. Since 1929, she has taught fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades plus classes in high school and has been an elementary principal.
Sometimes, the jobs overlapped. She was both teacher and principal at the old Sperryville Elementary School. “1 shared a seventh grade class with the librarian. I didn’t have a secretary or assistant principal or anything...But we didn’t have the paperwork that we have now,” she added.
She taught before the state Standards of Quality that regulate class size were adopted. "One year, I had SO children all day long in eighth grade. Sometimes I wonder how we got them all in one room.”
Despite class size, Mrs. Quaintance reported that she had few difficulties maintiming discipline. She began her first year in Rappahannock schools teaching an eighth grade class that included several “big, bad boys.” She used a switch on a
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