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I’m not going to put an unsafe school bus on the highway. That’s not to say accidents don’t occur. They can and will.”
Replying to Mr. Eastham’s assertion that teachers leave for other reasons besides salary, Dean Hahn, a five-year veteran, said he felt that the longer he taught, the better educator he became. “I loved the kids and I liked What I was doing,” said the now-probation officer. “I guarantee you I left because I was dissatisfied with the salary.”
Julian Brown, representing a committee of concerned parents, said the consensus among the group was that neither a school system nor anything else could operate well with the turnover Rappahannock suffered last year. In focusing on the shortcomings of the county’s schools, Mr. Brown said that the committee’s main initial thrust was directed towards the high school’s athletic programs. “None of us are objecting to a tax increase if that’s what it takes. But we do want to make sure we get what we’re paying for . . . Quality does not exist in the athletic program at the high school,” he charged.
Reduction in federal funds represents a shift by the Reagan administration to the position that taxes can be better raised, budgeted, spent and monitored at the local level, Barney O’Meara said. Federal taxes have been cut, he pointed out, with the stated intent that the revenue loss be covered with increased local taxes. Under President Reagan’s influence, federal taxes are to go down and local taxes go up, Mr. O’Meara said.
He suggested that the supervisors turn their attention from the school budget to other concerns — the landfill, dog pound, zoning regulations and renovation of the courthouse. “The School Board has already bitten off this budget, chewed it up thoroughly and digested it completely. Save your molars for other things on the platter . . . Take the School Board’s recommendation and approve the school budget,” he advised, maintaining that the School Board has “done a marvelous job.”
Arguing that “our children are ultimately our responsibility,” Guy Foster applauded the trend towards local funding and local control of education. Before the federal income tax was adopted in the early 1900s, “people took care of their own. Responsibility is beginning to come home now where it belongs — at the local level,” he said. Stating his willingness to “go for a tax increase,”
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