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To the editor:
Last week was a sad one for the public schools in Rappahannock.
On Monday, John Capelle, executive director of the Planning District Commission, told our supervisors that one of the jobs of the new Job Training Partnership program would be to help some of our high school graduates with their writing so they could fill out their own applications for employment! Once again, someone else has to do the job the public schools are supposed to do.
On Wednesday, there was a meeting for a public discussion on the recently issued report of the national commission entitled “A Nation At Risk.” The school superintendent spent the first part of the meeting doing a “hatchet job” on the validity of the report itself and the competence of the distinguished commission which issued it, which include Virginia’s own Margaret' Marston, a highly competent and respected lady. (The superintendent paused repeatedly to deny that he was doing what he was in the very act of doing!) Mr. Estabrook declined to tell us which, if any, of the commission’s recommendations he would urge the school board to adopt in this county. “Premature” and “simplistic” to do so, said he.
Further along in the meeting, the chairman of the school board revealed to us that, as far as she is concerned, the gifted and talented program (still, after four years, an utter farce) can be re-buried, along with the standards of quality vhich mandates it. Her vords which did it were: “I >elieve that ALL school children are gifted and tal
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