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She said Marganta Piper, who was principal at the elementary school then, encouraged her to tell the story. “She said, ‘You’re the last one. After you it will all be heresay,”’ Mrs. Foster said. “They are already saying it didn’t happen.”
When she first came to Rappahannock, “it was quite a culture shock,” she said. “It all fell into place, and I’ve loved every bit of it.”
"When a kid comes up to you and says, ‘ Mrs. Foster if it hadn’t been for you, I would not have gone on to school or college,’ it’s rewarding. If you can reach a few children, you have achieved something.”
Mrs. Foster said she has enjoyed working with the people in the local public school system. “They are all good colleagues,” she said. She also believes the school system is making progress under Superintendent David Gangel, but she is concerned that more and more children are having problems with reading. She sees it as a national problem, caused in part by the breakdown of the family.
She would like to see less reliance on standardized testing, especially in the early grades, and more freedom for classroom teachers to determine when students need the help of the remedial labs.
She doesn’t plan to give up the exercise classes she has conducted for several years for older women. “My gals would miss it, and so would I,” she said.
She plans to spend some time doing jobs around the house that have been neglected, such as cleaning out closets, and then perhaps she will look for part-time work. “I’ve learned not to plan on anything. I’ll just take it as it comes, I guess,” she concluded.
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