Sigmon v. Board of Educ. for County of Roane

NEELY, Justice:

The appellants are the mothers of school children who travel by bus each day to their school in Roane County. Janice Sig-mon lives 0.5 miles from the current end of the school bus route; Marsha Whiting lives 1.5 miles; and June Conley lives 0.1 miles. Appellants Sigmon and Whiting requested that the Transportation Director of the Board of Education of Roane County extend the current school bus route to a new turnaround 0.2 miles past the Whiting residence. This extension was along Stover Fork Road, a lightly traveled, state maintained, rock base gravel surface county road.…