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only criticism was that the serving line lacked a “sneeze bar.” At that time the Thornton River was pol* luted as it flowed past the schools She told him to clean up the river and “then come talk to me about g sneeze bar.”
It was during her tenure at Sperryville that county schools were integrated. “We really lucked out on that,” she said. “There had always been a good relationship between blacks and whites here, and people had seen enough of what happened in Warren County, where they closed the schools to try to buck inter gration.”
In 1969 Mrs. Snead became prim cipal of the new consolidated Rappm hannock County Elementary SchooE This job was considered full-time, and she left the classroom. “I missed it,” she said.
She took the advice of Robert Leonard, recently retired director of instruction in Warren County. “He told me if I wanted to know wha£ was going on in my school to walk the halls before classes start and the. last 15 minutes before the bell rings; at the end of the day,” she said, “You can tell where help is needed in: the classroom.”
She found evaluating teachers the most difficult part of the job.; There was a form that she, the assistant principal and the teacher each filled out independently. Then they would get together for a conference. “The poor teachers always gave themselves better grades than th$ good ones,” she said.
“It’s hard to evaluate teachers,* she said. “Sometimes your weakest teachers give something to some students your best teachers can’t.”
Mrs. Snead thinks she knows why unsuitable people went into teaching in the days when she first started. “That was about the only thing that was proper for a woman to do,” she said. “If you talked about becoming a nurse, your grandfather was horrified that you were going to be bathing naked men.”
She is not sure why, with sp many other opportunities, people unsuited to teaching are still doing it. “You have to love children ana love teaching. If I hadn’t loved it, J would rather have scrubbed floors^she said.
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