Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 11 · column 5 of 9 · from the scan, no model involved
(Continued from Page 1) head a committee to investigate this and other options further. She proposed that Masterson's committee include a second School Board member, representatives from administration, and representatives for teachers who belong to the Rappahannock County Education Association and teachers who are not Association members.
Masterson responded that he preferred to work solely with the administration in the initial stages, bringing others into the committee if any of the pay options appeared feasible.
Both Don Bomberger, president of the Education Association, and Ron Wiley, president of the Rappahannock Citizens for Better Education, objected to the exclusion of teachers from the initial phases of the committee’s work.
Seventh grade teacher Lynne Baines also maintained that teachers should be involved in the discussion of salary scales from the onset. She said she'd received the impression from the Board that the schools were being thought of “as some kind of manufacturing plant" and noted that the Board, in dealing with
teachers, was dealing “with people who do not have the same capabilities.”
“Some teachers,” stated Mrs. Baines, “work harder than others but some also have a harder task.’’ A teacher’s primary goal, she continued, is not to make a lot of money. “If it was, we wouldn’t still be here.”
She continued that the Board had insinuated teacher input was “erroneous” and so ignored that input. Earlier in the evening, she noted, the Board had adopted a new drug policy without any teacher input at all. She added that she was very upset over the action since she’d been personally involved in a drug related incident that had occurred recently at the elementary school.
Mrs. Massie countered that teachers as well as any interested citizen from the community have input to the School Board at all times during the portion of meetings set aside for public presentations.
89.7%