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eluded, there should be a review of procedures for probation and expulsion.
Retired teacher Diane Wood told the group that five years ago she had been “ashamed to tell peers” that she had chosen education for her career. The quality of schools, she said, depends on the teacher index salary issue and attracting a greater percentage of the cream of the colleges’ crops into the country’s classrooms.
Wood chose the county’s gifted and talented program as the one she would most like to see expanded. So did Nancy Schoppet. Schoppet said she was disappointed when she moved to the area to find that there was no day-to-day G&T program in place in Rappahannock. Regarding G&T, Janice Moffett said the two-week summer session had been successful in showing her youngster how to look beneath the surface of things to find more than one answer to a problem, rather than memorizing answers. Moffett thinks a similar course would benefit all students and not just the gifted.
The quality of a locality’s schools is the single most important incentive to new employers, according to Frank Reynolds, and Rappahannock can afford to have the best. “In Rappahannock County, we don’t pay a lot for government services,” he said, “and so we can afford schools on a par with any in the state.”
Regarding Estabrook’s criticism of the commission report that it included too many generalities, Reynolds responded that the portion dealing with content recommendations is very specific and should be adopted by Rappahannock schools as a guide. He concluded his remarks saying, “We should accept no less than the best. There isn’t anything any better we can spend our money on.”
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Retired teacher Diana Bird remarked that most of the county’s older residents would be willing to pay higher taxes to fund better education. “We are willing to pay the taxes to get the best,” she said. “We didn’t come here looking to find the cheapest tax.”
A local activist, Bird pledged her support to the parents' groups urging them to participate on a political level. She especially advised that those Concerned about education in Rappahannock get registered to vote so
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