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Rappahannock can’t afford a kindergarten on its own, School Board members and Supervisors have argued. Besides, the long bus routes, which are inevitable in a rural area, mean that young kindergarten students as well as older pupils would have to wait for the bus in the dark on winter mornings and wouldn’t get home until late in the afternoon.
IN SHORT, Rappahannock kindergarten opponents have concluded that kindergartens may be easy to implement in larger, mure urban school systems, but the requirement becomes quite a problem for rural areas. Also, they think it’s unfair for the state to require programs without providing the money to pay for them. And they’re not convinced kindergartens help the children any more than a pre-school program.
School Board chairman E. N. Montague said failure to start a kindergarten program might mean
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