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We can now empathize Math more than one-third of Rappahannock County Public School teachers.
It was roughly that percentage of teachers who told a review team from the Virginia Department of Education the lines of communication to the administration were closed.
Apparently, such treatment from the administration is customary.
That, we regret to say, is unfortunate.
A survey of some 350 parents, students and teachers offered a wonderful tool to administrators to gauge public perception of our local school system.
And those administrators offered the school board a glimpse of planned improvements based on those results.
The public, however, was not so qualified, apparently.
Just when those who control the quality of the public school system had a golden chance to answer the survey results, to boast their successes, to remedy their failures, they refuse to offer the public even the slightest taste of that information.
School Supt. Estabrook submitted a one-page letter that, to better inform the public, is as worthless as chalk dust.
The letter claims the administration is “justifiably proud of the numerous accomplishments” of our school system, as well they should be.
For a small, rural school division with limited resources and only a slim chance of increasing them, the system has done much for which it can be proud. The administrative review, the most probing survey of its kind ever to be conducted on this school system, points out that our school system is generally well-received, particularly by the parents of elementary school students.
But no system is perfect;
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