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in the school).
As a stockholder in the school system, my question is: How many students benefit from these expenditures compared to potential benefits from alternative uses of that same money?
The very legitimate question that many in this county raise is: What are we getting for our money? Is it better education, or simply more staff and buildings that cost more money to maintain?
The School Board is proposing to spend almost $4 million on physical plant. Track envy and Paul Gall’s photographs showing the state-of-the-art track technology of neighboring schools advocated by Rappahannock’s aging Greek calendar gods has been rolled into the package. When I saw Mr. Gall’s article in the Rappahannock News last winter, I thought if envy is going to drive the process, why not low-teachertumover envy, or good matheducation envy, top notch vocational-education envy, or well—funded- teacher training envy?
Second concern
This leads to my second concern—the process by which the School Board reaches its spending recommendations. The superintendent presumably plays a big role, but to whom does the superintendent listen? Who
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