Teachers, parents react to Henrico s school reopening plan
and last updated 2021-01-06 07:14:11-05
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. Henrico County Schools announced Tuesday it would delay the return of elementary school students to in-person learning two weeks due to the post-holiday spike in COVID-19 cases.
Students in pre-K through second grade had been scheduled to return to in-person learning on Monday. Now, students in grades pre-K through fifth, whose families chose to return in-person, would begin on Monday, January 25.
Middle and high school students were not scheduled to go back to in-person learning until February at the earliest.
That date has not changed.
What came next were three weeks of confusion and mostly silence from the school administration. From Nov. 9 through Nov. 24, Clark received four letters of reprimand from Falling Creek Middle Principal Sheryl Doswell, each citing Clark s failure to report for work. She did not receive a paycheck for the Nov. 30 pay period and has received notice she can expect her one to two next paychecks will be decreased.
In September, Chesterfield embarked on an aggressive return-to-school plan, bringing cohorts of students back every few weeks approximately 62,600 students in all. Comparatively, the Richmond and Henrico County public school systems began the year and remain virtual, though Henrico was poised to begin bringing some students back at the end of November. It later changed plans. Locally, only Hanover County started its school year with in-person classes for students and parents who wished to return.