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(Continued from Page 1) should have teachers’ salaries abov< the average of surrounding counties.”
Reynolds said that that would b< the only way for Rappahannock to com pete effectively for teachers and keej teachers in the county. “I don’t see hov a teacher can go to work here and hav< it thrown up to them that they ar< making less than teachers in Missis sippi," Reynolds said. “That doesn’t d( much for their pride.”
Diane Wood, a former teacher ir the county, questioned the system’s practice of charging textbook fees that are non-refundable. She said that the fees hinder teaching by stifling creativity. “When a parent pays for their chile to use a book, they want to make sure that every page in the book is covered*” Wood said. She said that that limits what teachers do in the classroom.
“I would like to see the fee reduced or the practice of selling the books adopted,” Wood said. She then discussed her thoughts on the salary proposals in the budget. “It is hard to justify to me the 17 percent raise for administration members,” Wood said. “I also disagree with Mr. Estabrook’s comment last week that he is not ashamed of the county’s conservative history because I am.”
Wood said that the county should shoot for the top for its teachers and its schools.
Another former teacher, Laurie Marshall, compared successful businesses’ respect for the people who work for them with the school system. “I think that we should try to learn from the private sector because that’s
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