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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannork Nnw Staff I’ritrr
Plans for capital improvements at Rappahannock County High School which have won lukewarm support at best from the school board over the years started another slide towards the drain at the board’s May 12 meeting. In an abrupt reversal last week, the board scrapped plans for implementing expanded course offerings and appeared ready to cancel discussion on a building program with representatives from various architectural firms.
Only a proposal from Nelson Lane that the board at least meet with local architect Avery Faulkner salvaged anything at all from the latest capital outlay planning process which began last October with curriculum assessment.
Concerns over space at RCHS are not new. A report dated January 7, 1976, from a joint supervisor-school board committee recognized “the need for construction and alterations” and set as priorities expansion of cafeteria and kitchen, additional restrooms, additional classrooms and increased office and storage space.
According to the 1976 report from a committee' chaired by Beverly Massie, now head of the school board, enrollment at that time stood at 463 in a
facilities designed for 285.
But despite the committee's findings, nothing was done in 1976 to relieve overcrowding at the high
92.5%