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Potomac Edison, the corporate giant that provides much of Rappahannock County with electricity, is also providing students at the county’s elementary school with an opportunity to use the latest in new age technology as a learning aid.
Next year, the sixth grade math classes at RCHS will be conducted in the new computer lab on Apple computers provided by the utility company, and at last week’s board meeting, School Board members took seats in front of the screens for an introduction to the computer learning curriculum.
“Now I look at my electric bills in a new light,” quipped sixth grade math teacher Lucy Maeyer, who will spend the summer writing programs that will enable youngsters to all work on the same assignment at the same time or follow individualized lessons on the computers.
The change in sixth grade math classes was one of two curriculum changes approved by the School Board at its June meeting; the incorporation of Spanish instruction into the fifth grade was also authorized.
Superintendent David Gangel said that the language will be taught during “enrichment time” for 20 to 30 minutes three days a week. Children in Chapter I or remedial programs who “need more emphasis on their primary language” are the only fifth graders who will not be involved.
According to Dr. Gangel, this is a pilot project and its effectiveness will be assessed at the end of the 1987-88 term. This year’s budget had funds for an after-school Spanish class and that same amount, which was included in the new budget, will cover the cost of the in-school expan
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