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Members of the Rappahannock Elementary School Student Parent . Teacher Association (SPTA) allocated . the first funds raised in the 1984-86 school year to the purchase of computer software, periodicals and books, and supplementary materials. The appropriation of $572.50 was approved by SPTA members at the December monthly meeting held on Thursday, December IS at the elementary school
The appropriation was approved unanimously after a presentation by Michael Cotter, assistant principal at RCES, in which he outlined the need for software educational programs as well as an additional computer hardware unit. According to Mr. Carter, the computer education program will be formally implemented in January of 1985, and the SPTA’s support of his request will enable the computer aware^ ness project to run more efficiently.
Mr. Carter explained that, even though “in-house” fluids were utilized to purchase the new computer equipment last summer, there were not sufficient in-house funds or fluids allocated by the school board fin* these additional areas of need.
In an effort to show support of the Virginia Department of Education mandate that graduates of the class of 1986 have a “basic literacy” level of competency involving “minimum exposure to the use of microcomputers in a school setting”, the Rappahannock County Elementary School is implementing a computer awareness program that will also enable younger children to have hands-on use of a com
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