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She said the lack of adequate planning in the past has hurt Rappahannock County. “We as a county have reacted rather than acted in the past. We need to plan as a county.”
She said the verdict as to whether the school system truly needs a school is still out, in her mind. “We don’t want to build something just to be building it. Buildings don’t teach children, but they enhance the learning process.”
As a member of a farm family, she said, she understands the sentiment against raising taxes to fund a new building. “Rappahannock is a conservative county. We have a lot of retired people here, a lot of people in agriculture,” she said.
And the ability-to-pay, as measured by the Virginia State Department of Education, unfairly considers Rappahannock one of the more affluent counties in the state, already putting an unfair burden on local tax dollars to support the public schools here, she argued.
“I question the numbers coming out of Richmond, I really do. I guess I’m a Doubting Thomas,” said Mrs. Massie.
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