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wicket. The total, cumulative debt service (principal and interest) should be given for the 20 years.
3. Future population numbers:
Basis and authority for future projections should be spelled out in detail if they are to be convincing. Bill Oliver may not believe we face a stabilized county population but the supervisors and our environmentally-minded residents are doing everything they can to prevent development and growth beyond the 6,000 we now have. Family lifestyles are a factor also.
4. Accreditation Standards and Standard of Quality:
A detailed list of those standards which specifically and directly require more space. For example, which standard requires us to have a 750-seat basketball superdome?
5. Course offerings and course “takings”:
To gain an education, it is more important to take a course (and pass it) than just to be offered it. How many students are required to take and pass a physics and/or chemistry course to graduate? How many are now taking these courses, necessitating a lab for hands-on experiments? Pre-calculus at RCHS (a course readily available in first year of college) for only six or seven students is one of the most inane ideas ever developed by a past School Board. I certainly don’t feel this way about high school physics and chemistry courses, including lab courses.
6. State mandates requiring more space at RCHS:
A complete list of such mandates for which the state has refused, in writing, to grant a waiver for Rappahannock County.
If the School Board will publish this information under its responsibility for accuracy, it may yet win its case in the court of public opinion but I remain to be convinced, along with others.
ROBERT W. EASTHAM Flint Hill
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