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between the teachers and the Board had been stretched too far and suggested that both teachers and students attend more School Board meetings and express their opinions to the Board members. He added that he hoped to see more School Board members in the schools observing the teachers and talking with the students.
Mrs. Massie interjected that each Board member has an assigned month when it is his or her responsibility to visit the two county schools.
“In ten years, I’ve had only one Board member actually in my class,” Flincham responded. He maintained that “a walk down the hall, lunch with the kids and then home” couldn't possibly give the Board members an accurate picture of what was happening in the Rappahannock school system. "They only see the top of the iceberg,” he added.
Elementary teacher Susan Henry stated that she resented Robert Eastham’s characterization of teachers as clock punching coal miners. “1 don’t punch a time clock,” she said, adding that she spent hours after class and on weekends in work with her students, sometimes to the detriment of her own family.
Eastham answered that he'd compared teachers to coal miners because coal miners were interested in one thing — ‘‘money, money, money, money, money.” He asked why teachers "seem to give the image at times of being clock punching coal miners ... You cannot expect to be honored and loved in
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