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pahannock’s teacher turnover back up to the 30-40 percent range. “That scares me.”
High school shop teacher Jim Dennis, who reported that he’d received his termination notice from Estabrook that day, said he'd been surprised in coming to Rappahannock to find that teachers at the high school liked their principal. In Ohio where he taught previously, he said. ‘‘We hated our principal.”
But in Rappahannock, “not only did we like our principal but we liked the superintendent,” Dennis continued with a pause, “the superintendent we had last year...We had a good relationship. We had fun teaching. This year, teaching has become a bit of a chore,” he said, adding that when asked a question, the current central office staff responds, "We’ll get back to you. We have to mull it over.”
“Get rid of me if you want to," Dennis told the board. “But keep Mr. Wingfield. He’s the best thing you’ve got going in this system right now."
Tiny Carney recalled her year of teaching at the high school when she was hired in an emergency with no experience and no teaching certificate. “Mr. Wingfield was absolutely wonderful to me. He answered all my questions...He didn't intimidate me or make me feel stupid for asking them. I always knew he was there but I never felt that he was breathing down my neck. I was able with his help to do a fairly decent job in teaching physical education.”
In the most moving expressions of support presented at the meeting, Peggy Stevenson, Allison Best and Shannon Streagle, all students at RCHS, broke into tears as they tried to tell the board why they felt the principal should be rehired.
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