Charlottesville pre-K through sixth grade students, teachers return for hybrid learning
Charlottesville pre-K through sixth grade students, teachers return for hybrid learning By Riley Wyant | March 8, 2021 at 8:33 PM EST - Updated March 8 at 11:24 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Many students and teachers with Charlottesville City Schools made the big return to the classroom Monday. For teachers and students at Walker Upper Elementary, March 8 has been circled on the calendar for weeks. It marks the start of something special - a return to normalcy.
“Today’s been a lot of fun. Right now the entire sixth grade is getting a chance to be outside and to play with one another,” Walker Upper Elementary School Principal Adam Hastings said.
Charlottesville, Albemarle County School Boards meet ahead of expanded return to school
Charlottesville, Albemarle County School Boards meet ahead of expanded return to school By Max Marcilla | March 4, 2021 at 11:42 PM EST - Updated March 5 at 2:36 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Ahead of scheduled returns-to-school, Albemarle County and Charlottesville School Boards both met, virtually, on Thursday. The county discussed its upcoming budget, while the city discussed a number of policies.
The cityâs meeting started with a lengthy public comment session. In less than a week, some PreK-6th grade students can come back to the classroom, but only specific Buford Middle and Charlottesville High School students. This led to an outpouring of support for an in-person option for those students, from those students.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – In the first split vote on the matter since they first started considering school schedules during COVID, the Charlottesville School Board has decided to delay the start of in-person instruction. A plan approved in December was only going to send a limited number of students back to the classrooms starting with elementary students January 19. However, after hearing the metrics in the face of a post-holiday surge in COVID cases locally, statewide, and nationally, the board voted 4-3 to delay that date until March 8.
Board members discussed the issue for some two hours before taking the vote. The plan would have sent the most-challenged students either academically or access-wise back to classes starting January 19 and middle- and high-schoolers back February 1. The plan is to bring all pre-K through 2nd graders back, as well as 3rd through 6th graders with critical needs. About 70-to-80 targeted students would have gone back to Buford Mi
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CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – The COVID metrics are going to have to be a lot better than they are now, even as the Charlottesville School Board passed scaled-back recommendations by Superintendent Rosa Atkins for in-person learning starting next semester. COVID Advisory Committee member and CATEC Director Dr. Beth Baptist cautioned the numbers are way up 3 weeks after Thanksgiving, and her sit-downs with the TJHD indicate they not only anticipate similar for the weeks following Christmas and New Years, but they will likely be worse. She says that’s because of the 2-week break and longer duration people will be spending in groups outside their households. So, along with the School Board passing Atkins’ scaled-back plan, they also agreed with Atkins’ recommendation that the board meet every 2 weeks to determine which direction to go as the numbers change favoring or deterring in-person school.