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No income from the land means very little to teachers, countered Bomberger, especially when the land owners are benefitting from the increased value of their land from year to year. Rappahannock’s low income ranking shows the county has a lot of poor people who can’t afford to send their children to private schools, he continued. For the county’s poor, education is often the only way to improve their life, Bomberger said
Dangerous Overcrowding
Sean Kilpatrick followed Bomberger in addressing the School Board. “I’ve got just one little thing on my mind and that’s school buses—not so much school buses as school bus routes and not so much the routes as the number of routes,” he began.
According to figures he’d obtained from school offices, Kilpatrick charged that total county bus routes were carrying 82 students above capacity. “There’s a crying need for two additional bus routes” and money for two new school buses above and over the purchases included in the replacement schedule, he maintained.
He noted that 66 passenger buses no longer hold 66 students since two or three seats had been lost for safety factors.
Budget Assistance
Kilpatrick also questioned why the School Board felt Dr. Bloomer required assistance with his statutory responsibility of preparing the preliminary school budget. “Why does he need help
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