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by Gerald Ochs
Rappahannock News Special Writer
At last night’s meeting of the Rappahannock School Board, Superintendent Dr. David Gangel outlined a novel approach to providing full Internet access at county schools. Dr. Gangel said that he would like to see 200 of the 300 school computers Internet-accessible before the start of the next school year, and was investigating the use of those students who have received network configuration training to do the bulk of the work.
If the Board approves this plan, selected students would be hired to provide such technical support during the coming summer, and they would be paid at a rate to be determined. Dr. Gangel noted that this approach would give students additional skills through on-the-job training, and would result in cost savings to the school system.
He cautioned that there were serious issues to contend with once Internet access had been achieved: teachers would have to be Internettrained to be able to provide supervision to students using the net and filtering software would need to be installed and tested on servers as well as on individual computers.
The Superintendent proposed, and the Board accepted, early release on May 21, 1999 to provide in-service Internet training for teachers, and additional teacher training has been scheduled for two days each this
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