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(Continued from Page 2) there’s no way for Rappahannock’s sophomores to participate and still have time in the school day for both the long bus ride to aifd from Culpeper AND the three state requited classes Wat itiuSt be'tak«W'at RCHS. Mrs. Kilpatrick noted the improvement in math on RCHS college board scores which she described as “distressingly low” overall. The scores are higher, she said, because they reflect of the performance of the 10th graders, the first class to be allowed to take algebra as eighth graders as is the practice in other school divisions.
She predicted that English scores would also go up if RCHS provides college bound English courses beginning in the eighth grade.
“But as inadequate as our facilities are, the biggest problem we have is teacher turn-over," Mrs. Kilpatrick maintained. The educational system suffers, she said, due to the high percentage of first and second year teachers.
She blamed the high turnover here on a combination of factors, partially the difficulty of finding housing in the county and the increased cost of commuting from neighboring counties but primarily on low salaries. Starting slaries in Rappahannock are competitive with adjoining divisions, she said, but begin to drop behind' in the fourth year “We need to improve the top end of the scale,” Mrs Kilpatrick maintained. ! She also proposed coor t dination of a paren i volunteer program similar t« Culpeper County’s and askee • the board to consider a year / round student activity bus : She acknowledged that thi 5 school sytem’s gas supplie 1 are tight but added that "i t the goal of all this con e servation is to reduce thi e country’s dependence oi
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