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The Rappahannock County School Board wants the community to support a $3.75 million bond for capital expenditures. As someone who has been closely involved with the public schools for the past six years, my concern is not the money per se, but the process behind the specific request.
A school system is like a business, albeit non-profit. It. provides a service, called education, which the community subsidizes, making all taxpayers the equivalent of stockholders in this business. Yet the Rappahannock County High School has just emerged from the equivalent of academic bankruptcy, as defined by the state. After three years, it finally met SOL standards for unconditional accreditation. The elementary school received its a year earlier.
My comments then are both as a stockholder, and as a person who wants to send his son to the public schools. My concerns are threefold: the misplaced emphasis (typical of public schools generally) on physical capital over intellectual capital; the budget process by which “needs” are generated; and the missing cost savings plan. Misplaced emphasis
It seems it is much easier to build physical things than to create the intangibles that
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