| John R. Feegel | |  | | Age: 44
Residence: 4 miles south of Purcellville/Lincoln
Education: BA, philosophy/art history, Holy Cross College; studied German, Boston College; studied Latin American studies, Georgetown University.
Occupation: President, Purcellville Prep; news editor, The Blue Ridge Leader; substitute teacher, Loudoun County public schools. |
"As teacher/preservationist, I best appreciate western Loudoun's community-based heritage. As an independent, I will not be pressured by local party politics or developers."
"Protecting western Loudoun's 12 'community-based' schools is priority 1,2 AND 3. Administrators, architects and various eastern School Board members unwisely propose replacing our effective schools with large, industrial-size institutions. Nonsense. No building-industry insider must be permitted to decide education policy. As a newspaper reporter, I studied which schools consistently perform best and why. It's the small ones, thanks to community involvement. Consider Loudoun Valley High's 2003 record-setting SAT results that are traceable to skills learned by 1993 first-graders in local, pre-sprawl elementary schools. Historic successes must be preserved. A tradition of excellence must be secured."
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