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Schools need
volunteers
BY APRIL HEDDLESTON
Rappahannock New* Contributing Writer
Studies document that volunteer programs which provide one-on-one attention to students are integral to their improvement in the regular classroom. Reading and mathematics are two of the most important skills our students will need to be successful, mature, productive members of society.
The Rappahannock County Schools are beginning a remedial education volunteer tutoring program to aid in these two areas. Parents, retired persons, and other community members can be invaluable resources in pur quest to give students needing remedial help the personal attention and direction they need to advance in their education.
This year the State of Virginia has mandated remedial education for all students who scored in the bottom quartile (1-25 National Percentile) on the state tests that determine reading and math skills. In order to aid and augment the reading and math labs now in place at the elementary and high school, Dr. David M. Gangel has applied for and received a state grant to implement the volunteer tutor program. Materials will be purchased and a volunteer coordinator will train and assist volunteers with the remediation program.
All members of this community are asked to consider if they could contribute time to this worthwhile project. Our very vital retired population can be providers of the effective one-to-one instruction that has been proven to help even the least capable students. They can bring their life-time of skills to better our schools and help a child feel competent. Mothers, or other persons who have even very limited time can contribute in a special and long-lasting way to these students.
Research has shown that if students consider school an impersonal, unfriendly place, no amount of improvement in educational curricula f can change their minds. But volunteers can transform the student’s perception of a school, creating for them a place where people care and work closely with students to help them improve.
For more information or to volunteer your services, please contact April Heddleston at the Rappahannock School Board Office at 987-8773 or leave your name and number with Jeanie Dwyer at that number.
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