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The question to pose now is — What is the best education?
The best education starts with a commitment to excellence. We, as a community, need to demand the best administrators and teachers for our children. In a rural community this isn’t often an easy task. Teachers, like other professionals in our society, are looking for competitive salaries. Some areas pay very well, and offer full benefit packages. Some schools are able to provide substantial funds for classroom materials. Since Rappahannock lacks these basics, educating our children is more difficult. Why should a good teacher settle for less than she/he is professionally capable of earning in another system?
The teachers in Rappahannock have been making a plea to parents and other community members: value your community, yourselves, your children. Allow your future to be filled with educated, home-grown residents. Now is the time to pull together to demand that our system work for us. Every time we deny money to our educational system, we are denying our children their right to a good education that could enable them to better survive and compete in a progressive society, and enrich and sustain our own community. Do we want our children to be slaved to poverty as a result of little or poor education?
Most educators give professional talent, time and care to our children, as well as literacy, democratic values, survival skills, and history, mathematics, sciences and arts. In return, surely educators deserve just financial compensations. Let’s all take a careful look at the real issue facing Rappahannock: the future. The solution: EDUCATION. Nothing good is ever free. Our financial investment in our educational system will result in a community that can survive because it has the
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