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Until last week, Rappahannock School Superintendant Robert Estabrook has remained largely silent on the subject and then he told approximately 30 people gathered in the elementary school auditorium, “I hope you have not come expecting me to preach and expecting a long speech that goes on for hours.”
Estabrook repeated previous staements that he wants public involvement in curriculum planning and for parents to share their evaluations of Rappahannock schools with him, the school board and teachers. “What above all else do you want your children to become proficient at?” he asked his audience. “They’re your children. They’re your schools. They’re not my schools. They’re our schools.”
Estabrook had a few preliminary remarks about the report before opening the floor up for discussion.
Cheap Shot
Estabrook accused the commission of using an overabundance of generalities and of taking “cheap shots” at the nation’s school systems. He admitted the truth of an alleged “indicator of risk”—that more than half the population of gifted students do not match their tested ability with school achievement. Yet Estabrook called it a “utopian view” that students should always achieve at fiill ability
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