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By Malcolm C. MacPherson
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
To a certain generation, licking a postage stamp and sticking it on an envelope is old hat. But for some eighth graders in Rappahannock, if it isn’t email, it just isn’t mail.
Or wasn’t, until a teacher with a lilting accent appeared in their midst with a new old idea.
Haf Daves, 27, an attractive blonde and energetic middle-school teacher in Rappahannock on a Visiting International Faculty Exchange Program from Denbigh, North Wales via Nottingham, England, came to ask the whole Rappahannock eighth grade, 76 students in all, to write personal letters with pencils and pens, then put them in envelopes and send them off to Great Britain.
To some of the youngsters, Daves’ request seemed so quaint, it might actually be fun.
The purpose, however, was serious and even a little deceptive.
Daves wants her students to write. She feels strongly that writing “with no purpose”—dull exercises on dull subjects—has the effect of turning off children to writing, and thus, she gives them clever exercises, like writing letters to their counterparts in England, and getting letters back.
“They can relate,” she says, “and rather than writing a letter and throwing it in a trash can, they are writing to real kids their own age.”
But first, let’s return to the stamps.
“Stamps?” asked Brittany Buchholz, as pert as any 13-year-old
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