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“I’m mostly concerned with how the teachers are going to teach the year after next when push comes to shove,” she said.
Dr. Tole said, “I think the publicity given the topic has been confusing, a mix of figures on what the county can or cannot afford. This board needs to make a decision on what is best educationally and present it to the supervisors and have them react rather than speculating about what ifs.”
“What’s best educationally is we need space now,” Mrs. Massie said.
Mr. Lee and Mrs. Thornton also agreed that it would be very difficult, if not impossible,~to have a middle school in place for the 1994-95 School year.
“We talk about what’s educationally best for the studeiits,” Mrs. Massie said. “What’s most important is to have good teachers, the best teachers we can. We’ve gone through hard economic times. This year we couldn’t even give a step increase. I’ve seen it happen; the supervisors cut the budget, and the only place We can cut is salaries. We can’t get so grand we’re not going to be able to pay the most important person in the education of the child. The best educational decision can’t just focus on buildings.”
Dr. Gangel said he agreed with most of the remarks that had been made. “I personally feel the guilding perspective for our decision should be what’s best educationally, and*let the Board of Supervisors decide what’s financially feasible,” he said. “In the end the supervisors have the responsibility to make that decision.”
He suggested sending a letter with the conditions listed. “Additions are add ons,” he said. “They will be taxing our facilities. If that’s what we can afford, I’m committed to it.” He also supported scaling back to a 400-student middle school and commiting not to add to the number of administrators.
After a great deal more discussion the board agreed to support the letter if it also spelled out concerns about salaries.
“Send the letter,” Mr. Nichols said. “They will understand we will take whichever we can afford considering we need salary increases for the staff... If we can’t afford the middle school with salary increases, we have an alternative.”
In other action the School Board:
• Learned that there has been a problem of cars passing school buses when they are stopped with their lights flashing to let off or take on students. There have been three cases in the past three weeks.
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