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rollment in a particular class; sick children wait to be taken home behind a screen in the home economic class; science rooms lack gas and water for student experiments. A few years ago, the School Board voted to expand educational offerings, most notably adding academic English for eighth, ninth and tenth graders. But with every room then used every period of every day, there was no class space. The new courses were scrapped.
There are those who claim that the county’s declining school population makes additional space at ECHS unnecessary. We’d like to point out projections from the professionals at the Virginia Department of Planning and Budget included in the county’s comprehensive plan adopted in 1981. The experts foresee our school population dipping slightly until 1965 and then gradually increasing again. The estimates for increased school population appear logical, especially when viewed next to actual figures and projections for Rappahannock’s population as a whole. According to the U.S. Bureau of Census, the county’s population steadily declined between 1930 and 1970, dropping from 7,717 to 5,199. But census figures showed an increase to 5,745 in 1975 and the upward climb continues, topping 6,000 in 1980. It stands to reason that with more people, we’re going to have more children.
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