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teachers during the budget hearings. "That is what I feel is a little hard to take...The end product (of education) is children—that should be the first consideration," she maintained.
Jimmy Swindler, a high school senior who'd attended the School Board meeting to request permission for a senior class trip, interjected that the main issue in the budget controversy appeared to be the teachers’ contracts. “I don't see why you should be offended that they didn’t bring up the students," said Swindler.
"The teachers do care about their students,” he maintained, citing long hours devoted to extra-curricular responsibilities. “The only satisfaction they get is seeing kids like me learn,” Swindler added.
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"I don’t think you could find another school where the student-teacher relationship is as good as it is here,” he maintained. "I’m friends with just about every teacher out there” at the high school, Swindler told the School Board. "In class and in the halls, I call them mister but they’re my friends," he concluded.
“If teachers didn’t care, they wouldn’t be teaching,” stated Moffett. “We could make more money digging a ditch...I think it’s very harsh and very wrong to say that anybody doesn’t care...We’re not fighting the students or the School Board. We’re fighting for our survival."
"When have you been in the schools and seen that the teachers didn’t show love and concern for their students?” Mrs. Flincham asked the School Board Chairman.
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“I think the comments I made are being misconstrued,” countered Mrs. Massie, adding that she said a lack of concern was shown during the budget presentations, not in the classrooms. “It’s important for the teachers, through the Rappahannock Educational Association, to project a better image to the public that it’s not just monetary values teachers are interested in,” she maintained.
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