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declined to endorse the superintendent’s proposal to charge a nominal fee for non-athletic field trips only on the grounds that this approach discriminated against the students who aren’t involved in sports.
Instead, they voted to hit student athletes with an additional cost on top of the financial burden they already bear. It costs money for a student to represent his or her school in sporting events-money that the students or their parents pay.
Take girls basketball as an example. There is no activity bus this fall. The Ladv Panthers provided their own transportation-paying for their own gas and oil-to try-outs and practice that began before school opened. They’re still paying that transportation cost to and from practice three nights a week. They’re still paying that transportation cost to and from school for games, either home or away, on the other two nights of the week. Basic uniforms are provided but athletes supply the extras.
The girls buy their own socks. They go through eight to ten pairs during the season and at upwards of $2 a pair, the price mounts. They buy their own tennis shoes and pay for the laundering of their uniforms. Now, on top of all this, the school board wants the Ladv Panthers and the rest of the RCHS athletes to pay part of their transportation costs on school buses to away games.
The school board should reverse its decision. Rappahannock athletes shouldn’t have to pay any extra fees-even a nominal one-for the privilege of representing their school and their county.
It may turn out to be that for want of a bus fare, the team was lost.
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