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(Continued from Page 1) "who are only getting by with the skin of their teeth” because they weren’t adequately prepared at the high school.
Bare Minimum
“Even if we do stay accredited, our school is at the minimum, just the bare minimum," said Courtney Jones. “We’re trying to understand your point,” she told the supervisors, complimenting them for visiting the high school with the school board members earlier in the day. “We’re behind you if you’re ready to help us,” she added.
Tammy Settle maintained that the Piedmont Regional School w'as “really great for a few people. But only a small percentage of us can go,” she said, citing the need for students to take academic as well as vocational courses.
Andy Nichols, a former graduate of RCHS and Lynchburg College, noted that Rappahannock had been defined as an agricutlural county. “If this is an agricultural county and you’re sending students to Piedmont to study building trades, they’ll have to leave the county to find jobs,” he said, proposing the addition of agriculturally related
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