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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
It looks more and more like the Rappahannock school board will make a recommendation on expansion at the county high school in time for funds to be included in the budget for 1981-82 should the decision be to add additional space. “The buck stops with the school board,” stated chairman Beverly Massie at Tuesday night’s meeting, voicing her support for the board’s reaching its own conclusions on efficient use of existing space and requirements for more classrooms at RCHS. She maintained that the board has followed an orderly, logical process to date, establishing school population projections and setting curriculum before tackling capital outlay specifics. (Earlier in Tuesday’s meeting, the board voted to require three years of mathematics for graduation beginning with the class of 1984, the present eighth graders. Currently, only two math units are required for a diploma. Dual English with general and academic classes at each grade level will be offered, beginning next year. The board also approved a requirement for each student to take a minimum of five courses per year beginning in 1981-tl: In addition, the cBifCnr' sociology program will be reorganized into one semester of economics and one semester of sociology by next year and each of four consecutive years of home economics will be made a prerequisite for the following year. The curriculum changes were approved by a four to one margin, contingent upon available space, with Newbill Miller casting the opposing vote. The rest of the curriculum expansion approved earlier in the year—clerk typist block program, extra section of typing 1 and remedial math lab - will be addressed at next Tuesday’s special school board meeting.>
Newbill Miller noted that he had originally favored getting outside expert advice on space use and capital outlay but “got the idea we’d have to do it ourselves” after difficulties in finding the sought after expert.
Delay For Expert
“I'm not being stubborn but at least I’m being consistent,” said Robert Eastham, maintaining that the board members must find somebody "without any axes
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