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Ms. Gray asked if experience is taken into account, pointing out that she has a year’s edge over the central office bookkeeper.
“The primary fiscal officer in the district is the bookkeeper (for the central office),” Mr. Estabrook said, repeating that the higher responsibility level was the determining factor in the proposed higher salary.
High school principal Robert Chappell supported his secretary’s petition. “She’s the principal at times . . . She’s taken care of every single thing that comes down the pike,” he said, explaining that Ms. Gray must often deal with situations when he and assistant principal John Toth are busy in another part of the building. He asked the board members to “do the best you can” for custodians and other classified staff and to give career teachers higher raises. “Those who stick with us for 10, 20 years are falling significantly behind” their counterparts in other school divisions, the RCHS principal said.
“I’m dead set against any type of bonus,” said RCHS shop teacher Ron Vickers. He maintained that this type of compensation is “more political... not something I can look forward to down the road in my career in Rappahannock County.”
Speaking as a classroom teacher, Mrs. Baines questioned the equal allocation for instructional supplies at the two schools when the elementary school has far more students.
Mr. Estabrook recalled that the elementary school was alloted more than RCHS when he first took the job here as superintendent. “My position has been to bring the high school up to at least equity. Undoubtedly, there’s room for more, primarily at the high school.”
Mrs. Baines noted that the line item for instructional supplies is essentially the same as that allocated for the current year, with the only increase coming from the addition of materials for Chapter I programs
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