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To the editor:
Students at Rappahannock County High School are now completing their class schedules for the coming school year. Writing as an individual citizen. I would like to review the lack of * progress that has been made toward improving the course offerings available to our Rappahannock students.
Again this year, we are unable to offer each student a minimum of three years of math, such as is available in Culpeper, for example.
Most of our classrooms are large enough—we just do not have enough of them to provide a standard basic math background. We again foresee closing a number of students out of typing—due to space problems.
For yet another year, we will be using three rooms for science instruction, although only one of those rooms is a science lab.
A well stocked science lab invites young people to become excited by the wonders in our natural world, and makes abstract concepts much more understandable and memorable.
Continued lack of proper science labs, on the other hand, is a handicap to all our students, and most especially to those aspiring to meet the challenges of college.
In the Business Department, we can forecast that some Rappahannock students will again not be able to complete even the minimum program as set forth by the state, due to space limitations.
Naturally, the restrooms, cafeteria, library, and storage facilities also remain overcrowded, and of course we are still without a math lab at the high school.
If these conditions are going to be rectified, we need action by the Superintendent, who has so far shown little leadership in this regard and even less sense of urgency.
The School Board must eventually demonstrate a
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