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The controversy over the reassignment of seventh grade science teacher Lynne Baines, despite her objections, to instructor in a fifth-sixth grade combination class continues.
At a special meeting last Sunday night, the Rappahannock School Board drafted a resolution requesting that Superintendent William Bloomer return Mrs. Baines to head the science program—a program that she organized four years ago.
Bloomer declined to honor the request. Apparently, the new Superintendent feels bound to the “lame duck” reassignemnet made by ex-elementary principal Buddy Carter.
Carter has gone and the timing of his departure has caused us to question his sense of judgement.
In a move that struck us as blatantly unprofessional, Carter turned in his resignation as principal at the August 9 School Board meeting, just three weeks before classes were scheduled to start. He left Rappahannock in the lurch to take a position in his home county of Alleghany after holding the position vacated by the retirement of principal Mary Quaintance for approximately six weeks.
Carter has spent 4 years in Rappahannock schools. He has first hand knowledge of the difficulties that rural, relatively low-paying systems perennially face in attracting top notch educators. In any case, by the middle of August,
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