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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New** Staff V riter
A crowd of about 200 parents. teachers and students packed the elementary school library and spilled out into the hall at Tuesday’s school board meeting, the overwhelming majority there in support of embattled high school principal Dennis Wingfield.
But the backing from the public wasn’t enough to dissuade school board members who voted unanimously on returning to open session at 12:40 a.m. to reassign the 16-year veteran as a classroom teacher.
Deputy Mark Wittl attended the ' meeting in response to a request for police presence made by the board Tuesday afternoon to Rappahannock sheriff W. A. Buntin. Despite the emotion focused on Wingfield’s reappointment, however, commei.t was orderly and in accordance with rules set out by board chairman Beverly Massie.
Roland Fontaine, spokesman for concerned parents in Jackson District, read reasons behind Robert Estabrook’s recommendation that Wingfield not be reappointed which were set out in a March 26 letter to the RCHS principal. The superintendent maintained:
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