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DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
When the State Department of Education announced last month that teachers — but not students —could be transported in the Rappahannock school system’s van, and that station wagons — but not vans — could be used to transport students, the county's School Board directed Superintendent David Gangel to protest the pronouncement from Richmond.
Dr. Gangel wrote the letters, sending copies to Rappahannock’s representatives in the General Assembly and asking for their help. At last week's board meeting, he admitted thinking the protest was an exercise in futility, but the responses he read to the School Board proved otherwise.
The reaction from the Department of Education not only shows that the squeaky wheel still gets the grease, as Chairman Beverly Massie put it. but it demonstrates the weird w'ays in which bureaucracy sometimes works and why that working could use a good publicity agent for the sake of “image enhancement” (to borrow PR lingo), known also as “spin" in political circles.
State Senator Kevin G. Miller answered Rappahannock’s call for help with a letter to Virginia's associate director of pupil transportation services, maintaining that if the School Board’s van passes the Department of Transportation’s safety regulations, it should be safe for transporting students.
Delegate Raymond R. (Andy) Guest wrote .John
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