THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, February 24, 1996            TAG: 9602240010
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A10  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   19 lines

SCHOOL BOARDS SCORNED

Regarding the school budget problems at Virginia Beach: Mark Twain was uncannily accurate when he wrote, ``In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards.''

JOHN F. DELANEY

Virginia Beach, Feb. 19, 1996 by CNB