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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
A much smaller and completely different crowd showed up for the public hearing on school expansion Monday night than showed up last January, and most speakers this time supported building a middle school.
Following the public hearing in January when speakers had asked for alternatives to the middle school, the School Board hired a consultant who said the space problems at both schools could be solved temporarily by modular classrooms at a cost of $651,000. Superintendent David Gangel said he saw no evidence that the crowding is the result of a temporary problem, and so he could not recommend modular classrooms.
The consultant, Low’ell Baughan of Baughan and Baukages architectural firm in Luray, said as an alternative the school system could build additions to both schools at a cost of between $2.1 and $1.9 million.
“This is a ten-year solution,” Dr. Gangel said Monday night. “Nowhere does it say the growth will stop after 10 years, and the debt will last beyond 10 years."
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