Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 26, 1990 TAG: 9004260549
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A-10 EDITION: METRO
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The speakers all favored the present method of selection by a court-appointed committee. A favorable vote on the referendum would make that choice available to the county Board of Supervisors. This would bring the selection process closer to the people and encourage increased accountability by School Board members.
It is unfortunate that so much adverse publicity is attached to such a worthy enterprise as the Career Center. It offers an in-school alternative for those who are unable to function in the normal classroom. It offers a program similar to the Southview Vocational School that performed such good services to 6th- to 9th-graders during the 1970s and '80s. The center retains in school those who otherwise would go to the streets. Thus far they are batting 1.000.
It may not be unfair to speculate that had not county school patrons shown such disdain for the Board of Supervisors in the referendum of 1988, the Career Center program might have been adequately funded. And the Roanoke County PTA, so closely identified with and so supportive of the School Board and this administration in the past, has this opportunity to demonstrate to their children the value of loyalty, by sharing with the administration and the board the criticism resulting from the school-division deficit. T.C. FISHER Member, Roanoke County School Board 1972-1980 ROANOKE
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