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week tests, in the “academics first” philosophy, in the departmental tests in certain subjects, in the emphasis on content, in the fifty-percent exams, in the use of weekly assembly time to instruct (the Lynns considered themselves teachers of the entire student body) about words of the day, about public holidays, about current events, about the rationale for school rules, etc.
I believe the board of trustees should be held accountable for their unwillingness to work with Mrs. Lynn. Why have they requested, specifically or obliquely, that teachers take sides? Why are they putting the onus for school management, via the committee system, on the teachers? Why, when they mention a parents’ association vote, don’t they include the numerous abstentions that make the assertion of two-toone support in their favor ludicrous and patently misleading? Why won’t they sit down with Mrs. Lynn and discuss a third way of running Wakefield: As a joint effort with mutually agreed job descriptions that have as their goal the continuation of the excellence for which Wakefield has been noted? If they can’t work with Mrs. Lynn, why don’t they resign? She is, after all, a co-founder of the school.
I am grateful for the six years in which I worked under the Lynns. I am grateful for my sons’ exposure to individuals who had a passion for academic excellence and who were unrelenting in making it a reality in Rappahannock County.
KAY LARRIEU
Manassas
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