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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Newt Staff Writer
At a special meeting Tuesday night, the Rappahannock school board acted to begin resolution of the five-year controversy over school expansion.
“No one from Fairfax is going to come in here and tell us what to do. I think we’re going to have to make the decision ourselves on what we need,” said Newbill Miller as the board opted to abandon the idea of a program audit by an outside professional and instead to determine themselves curriculum and space needs in the county schools.
The board set October 28 at 7:30 for a meeting devoted solely to discussion of curriculum, following chairman Beverly Massie’s contention that what will be taught must be determined before a conclusion can be reached on space needed for teaching.
Superintendent William Bloomer was asked to have data ready prior to the special session on enrollment by grade from 1968 to the present and to provide the number of students attending Piedmont Vocational Center and the number of students leaving classes for jobs after a half day at RCHS. Bloomer convinced the board to use enrollment rather than average daily attendance figures as a guide to determine space needs, pointing out that classrooms must be built and desks provided for the maximum number of students who may attend on a given day.
The superintendent also reported that John Hamill,
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