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membership is now at 1,051. To meet the State Department of Education’s standards of quality on pupilteacher ratio for that enrollment, Rappahannock needs 57'/i teaching positions, Eastham said. “We have 69...We may remove by law any teacher, tenured or not, if we have declining enrollment,” he said.
“I don’t want to publicly disagree with a statement made by a member of the school board (but) you’ll find that all school divisions have a number of teachers over the SOQ minimum,” countered chairman Beverly Massie. This is the result, she said, of offering classes such as French, chemistry, physics and calculous which service a smaller number of students.
"I doh’t want you to be mislead,” Massie told the supervisors, acknowledging an enrollment decrease in the county’s public schools. “But you can’t say that we can lop off ten instructional teachers (because the number of teachers exceeds the SOQ minimum for pupil-teacher ratio)," she maintained
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