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the brick elementary school building that we have today was constructed. It was 

 also during that same period that the present dispensary was constructed. The 

 funding of the school continued through BuOrd, but as we approached the 

 1940's our high school population became too large on the Stadon and too 

 cosdy. We didn't have the facilides to take care of the numbers. An arrange- 

 ment was made whereby the high school was closed and the dependents [high 

 school students] went to the school in King George County. 



Then in 1951, Congress passed a special bill known as "Federal Aid to 

 Impacted Areas." Those were the areas which had a significant number of 

 children in their enrollments who were dependents of military and civilian 

 personnel from activities in those areas. The philosophy was that military 

 personnel, not being taxpayers in the area, were creating a burden on the state 

 school systems, and this was the way the federal government was attempting to 

 ease that burden — by making revenues available. In addition, it also required 

 that all schools on the federal establishments be operated by the United States 

 Office of Education, so that cut the funding off from BuOrd and put us under 

 funding from the United States Office of Education. It was the intent that there 

 be no local school operations within the continental U.S. on federal property 

 and that the children there go to the local schools. The government was going 

 to pay the local school systems for accepting. 



First private school and class at Dahlgren. 



