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Last week, Rappahannock became the only school board we know of to insist upon an unqualified audit of activity and cafeteria funds.
There’s been no indication of any misuse of money under the schools’ current accounting system. In fact, no one has mentioned any instance where the current system hasn’t worked perfectly. Still, the board has committed itself to spending more of the taxpayers’ money and more of the teachers’ and administrators’ time in order to institute tighter controls on every dollar that flows through the activity and cafeteria funds.
Compared to the total school budget, the extra money is just a drop in the bucket — a few thousand in a one-time fee to set up the new system and then a couple thousand more every year for additional charges from the auditor, personnel hours and stacks and stacks of receipt books.
It’s the added time, particularly at the elementary school, that we object to—hours out of the instructional day which could more profitably be devoted to teaching.
To provide the audit trail the accountant must follow before he can give his unqualified opinion that all is right with school money, every dollar and cent taken into the activity and cafeteria funds must be receipted.
Give the school board members a few months and they’ll be able to listen in on conversations like this at homes of youngsters throughout the county:
“Well Johnny, what did you do in school today?”
“I bought milk this morning and ' here's a receipt. 1 bought ice Creartf far '' lunch and here’s a receipt. My pencil broke so I needed a new one and here’s
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