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By MICHELE MAY
Rappahannock New. Staff Writer
When the national commission on educational excellence submitted its report to the president in April, a smattering of response began to be heard from around the country rising from the grassroots and the local school boards agreeing or disputing the commission’s opinion that America had been caught up in a “rising tide of mediocrity.”
For the first time in the country’s history, the report asserted, the educational skills of one generation will not even approach those of their parents.
“Not in our county!” came the cry from neighboring districts. Culpeper School Superintendent Tony Stewart said his philosoph’ ical approach toward education since the beginning of his career has been a “back t to the basics” approach. < Last spring, Stewart responded to the “Nation at Risk” report saying Cul! peper students are making advances each year in the ■ areas of reading, writing, match and science.
Fauquier County School Superintendant S. Harold Lamm said at the time that the schools under his jurisdiction had already begun to blaze trails towards incorporating the content included in the commission’s recommendations, especially in the area of computer science, one of the so-called •3 “new basics.” * i
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