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Grade”—give some insight into the crisis in education in this country.
How does Rappahannock County measure up on this issue? The record is mixed. Our Pop-Quiz team did quite well in competition with other schools and the recent SRA test score results were encouraging. On the other hand, we have recently witnessed drastic cuts in the school budget which have resulted in failure to hire another math instructor, inability to adopt the index pay scale and another delay in solving the critical space needs at the high school.
This is particularly ironic in light of your last week’s article, “Rappahannock Tops State In Ability To Tax.” Based on the 1981-82 fiscal year, Rappahannock was ranked first of 136 counties in Virginia in terms of “least fiscal stress,” a measure of the capacity to raise taxes combined with the choice not to do so.
A number of Rappahannock citizens have expressed concern and consternation about the supervisors’ cutting of the school budget. In fact, this local action got national exposure in James J. Kilpatrick’s column of May 12, when he wrote: “Our county supervisors... identify with the small farmers (who) abhor higher taxes, and while they care for thenpublic schools, they don’t care for them very much. In point of fact, our taxes are embarassingly low.”
Clearly any increase in the school budget will have a
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