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“We will no longer pay that price and be defrauded in the deal. Our demands are now non-debatable and nonnegotiable.
“You will upgrade our teachers and the rest of the school staff by paying them strictly on the basis of performance.
“You will stop playing games with our children by allowing them to ‘elect’ themselves out of an education.
“You will require and see to it that the school children do their part in this thing by maintaining discipline in the schools and by completing their assignments through adequate ‘time on task.’
“You will prove future progress in educating them by honest testing of students and honest evaluations of personnel for we will no longer accept the disreputable argumentation and cop-out of ‘we do not know and we can never know.’
“We elect, appoint, hire, and pay you to make judgements and decisions regarding public employees and students and if you are unable to do it, we will have you replaced by someone who can and will do it. ”
While speaking, that public voice of Rappahannock should add this dictum (also from Thomas Jefferson) for the guidance of office holders in this county:
“When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.”
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