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Norton’s
Gone
Fishing
“I don’t have any spare time if the first two weeks are any indication,” said O. A. Norton following his retirement in July as Superintendent of Rappahannock County schools. “I’ve been busy catching up for the past ten or 15 years on lawn and maintenance jobs that I’ve missed.”
Norton left his job as Superintendent in Amelia County to assume the combined position of Superintendent for Warren and Rappahannock school systems in 1961. 'The county then had a consolidated high school with eight little neighborhood elementary schools. “Enrollment was a little higher than now with about 100 more children at the elementary level and fewer students in hfgh school,” Norton said. After running the combined school system for 14 years, he became a part-time Superintendent for Rappahannock alone in 1975.
During his tenure, Norton directed the switch from neighborhood elementary schools to one consolidated facility. “The county ought to be complimented on the smoothness with which total consolidation was brought about in the ’60’s and the support the School Board received when they asked the public for funds to build the elementary school,” he commented.
Norton has watched enrollment in Rappahannock schools decline steadily while the paper burden involved in running the system has mushroomed. When he first began the job, the Aid to Education Act had not been passed and schools were funded from state and local sources. “Over the years, federal money has been increasingly used to pay for added demands placed on schools to provide for the exceptional child who is
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