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sne added ner support tor funding requests from the high school dramatics department. Drama teaches youngsters how to express themselves in public, a skill necessary for democracy to survive, Marshall maintained.
She noted that the handbook provided teachers when they are first hired in Rappahannock gives a teacher’s job as helping children to live in a democracy. “I take that directive very seriously,” Marshall said, adding that without problem solving, research and communication skills, democracy has little chance for survival.
The board was asked to include funds for an inschool suspension program in the budget for 1981-82. Students are now suspended either for punishment or to protect other students. Inschool suspension could accomplish both without sacrificing educational progress, the board was told.
Sharon Kilpatrick supported the index salary scale proposed by the RCEA. She maintained that instituting the index scale with a 12.4 percent cost of living raise will require only about SI 1,814 more than the superintendent’s recommendation for using the current scale with the same cost of living raie, assuming that both start with the same base salary and that salary steps in the index scale climb by three percent up to 15
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