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(Continued from Page 1) classrooms were filled every period this year. However, he noted, even with maximum utilization, administrators at the high school were forced to combine study halls, putting two classes and two teachers into one room. “So we're beyond capacity," he said.
Describing the situation at the high school as “critical," Bloomer maintained that the administration had been ‘forced to put classes in rooms that are inefficient as far as teaching is concerned." He informed the Board that science classes were being held in rooms “without running water or gas for experiments."
In response to a question on restroom facilities at the high school. Bloomer answered that there was a single boys bathroom at the end of one of the two hallways in the L-shaped school and a single girls room midway down one of the hallways.
"The crowded conditions at the elementary school have not received as much publicity." Bloomer continued.
Over the last year. Bloomer noted. Rappahannock Elementary School has added positions of speech therapist, learning disabilities resource person, child development specialist, school psychologist and educational diagnostician.
Learning disabilities and speech therapy classes are held in the two small rooms that previously served as the school clinic. The psychologist and learning disabilities teacher share a cubbyhole in the library that used to be the audio-visual room.
The educational diagnostician who comes two days a week must oust either the principal or assistant principal front their office to use the room for testing, children for placement. The situation at the elementan school regarding class spact is 'not adequate." Bloomet concluded.
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