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lo the editor:
My daughter will be in the 10th grade next year. Since the year she was in kindergarten (not in public school; there was no public kindergarten in Rappahannock then), I have been attending School Board meetings and trying to work to improve public education in Rappahannock. In those 10 years the School Board has three times approached the Board of Supervisors with plans for expansion of the facilities at the high school. Twice the plans have gone nowhere.
The money saved by not building them has not gone to improve teacher salaries in any noticeable way. For proof one has only to notice that our salaries are the lowest among the counties around us. In these same 10 years we have built a very attractive office for the County Clerk and her records. We have so remodeled the jail that we could almost have built a new one. Now we are about to build a dog pound.
What perversion in our natures causes us to value space for dogs, prisoners and county records above space for education? If we once again stop short of implementing a high school improvement plan, our teacher salaries will not suddenly become competitive. Rather we will lose more valuable years, and the cost of making these improvements will continue to go up.
Many of the teachers we most want to keep are those who have worked so diligently over the years to try to get improvements to the school plant. If we once more abandon those plans, more of those teachers will leave.
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