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Three other articles from regional publications spell out the problem and the troubles it adds up to.
The May 7 Culpeper StarExponent had a front page article about the nightmare ride experienced by school bus driver Joyce Yeiser. As her bus pulled away from school, she smelled a “blunt”, a hollowed-out cigar in which, as Mrs. Yeiser put it, students “insert the smokable stuff of their choice.” Mrs. Yeiser did not immediately pull the bus over because, the article relates, a “child has to be caught smoking on three separate occasions to be disciplined with more than a referral.”
“As the smoke worsened she did pull the bus over and when she confronted the youth he threatened her and cursed her “using every swear word possible.” When she began driving again, the youth and a friend came up and sat in the seats directly behind her and across from her, one boy slapping a pair of shoes together and the other continuing to curse and threaten her.
Mrs. Yeiser summed it up by saying, “1 feel school buses should be safe for the bus drivers... These kids have no business ever being on a school bus, and I’m not sure kids are safe in school with kids like (them).” She concluded by saying, ‘They need an adult to say ‘this is your boundary’.”
The May edition of Rural Living, the publication sent out by the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, had in it a letter from Thomas T. Earles, also of Culpeper, who wrote: “As a high school teacher for 32 years I am
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