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through to get out the door.”
“Look at the school budget not in terms of the expense but in terms of an investment in our future,” suggested Margaret Strawser, who has two children who graduated from RCHS.
“I support adoption of the school budget not because it’s satisfactory but because it’s what’s been presented,” Liz Blubaugh told the board members. She maintained that every year, school expenditures are pared down to minimal or subminimal levels before the budget is even presented to the supervisors. “Next year, I want to see a budget that meets our educational needs.”
“Our school faculty, our teachers, are some of the finest available. Some have few peers,” said RCHS principal Robert Chappell. “And we have 420 or more really fine young men and women. Some have few intellectual, creative or athletically talented peers.”
Rappahannock’s teachers need to feel that their efforts are being rewarded with adequate pay, Chappell said. Students and teachers both need an adequate facilty in which to teach, learn and live, the principal said. He pointed out that the high school currently has four science programs but only one with a lab. “We need two more (labs) desperately in order to meet state requirements.” There’s no place for a sick child to rest while waiting to be picked up by parents, Chappell continued. A bigger library, a cafeteria that seats at least half of the student body, a meeting room that hold more than three or four people at a time, a separate area for dramatics are also necesary, he maintained. “I urge you gentlemen to put the children of Rappahannock County first,” Chappell concluded, asking the suDervi
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