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To the editor
Seeing that it’s the eye of contract renewal time and being an untenured teacher, perhaps this letter is somewhat risky for me personally, but I feel that my pride as a teacher at Rappahannock County High School makes this necessary.
I have too long read comments about the lack of quality education in our school and to simply let them go by unanswered may indicate an apathy on behalf of us educators with the situation. With this in mind as well as the High School Expansion Project being discussed, I would like to state a case for the vital expansion project in the area of science.
An essential part of any science curriculum is the lab work that enhances the lecture material. It gives relevance and develops lab skills and critical problem-solving thinking. Lab work in the two classrooms now designated for science is virtually impossible or at best, quite limited.
SPACE for lab work is vital. Within a fifty minute time frame, students must get materials to use in the lab, do the experiment and clean up at the end. In such crowded classrooms as we have, increased time must be alloted for 20-30 students to move about to get materials and clean up. Then when actually performing the experiments, we are hampered by desks which, by necessity, are cramped close together. Add that to one source of water in the room and the situation is compounded. (The water source, by the way, was a luxury afforded to Biology in the past
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