Schools expected to decide masking requirements; Parents push for choice Protesters lined up outside the Stafford County School Board meeting on July 27, 2021. [Photo by Uriah Kiser/PLN]
Public school students in our area will head back to class in about two weeks, and the majority of school systems in our region have yet to tell parents whether or not their child will be forced to wear a mask indoors.
Prince William County
Officials in the state’s second-largest school division said the system’s new superintendent, Dr. Latayna McDade, who is in the midst of navigating her first 100-day honeymoon phase would be the one to make the call as to whether or not your child will need to wear a mask.
Parents slam Prince William County schools equity policy, call it racist Amanda Ballard, of Haymarket, asked Prince William County school leaders for changes to the division s new equity policy, saying children should be judged on the content of their character, not their skin color.
Parents slammed the Prince William County School Board for its approval of a new equity statement that overhauling the content, and the methods of how children are taught, addressing disparities between the schools in the division, and hiring new teachers based on race.
The statement calls for teachers and school personnel to identify their implicit biases an assertion that people base decisions on both past experiences, and racial bias. Last fall during a joint meeting with the School Board, three Prince William County Supervisors walked out of a joint implicit bias training in protest, linking the training to critical race theory, a practice banned from the federal workplace under the Tru
The remainder of Prince William County’s public school children who haven’t set foot in a classroom in nearly a year may do so later this month.
In a 5-3 vote early this morning, the School Board affirmed its plan outlined on January 12 to return children in grades 4 through 12 to the classroom for the first time since March 12, 2020.
Students in grades 4, 5, and 6 will return on February 25 and 26, in alternating groups, four days a week. Students in grades 7 through 12 will return on March 2 and 3 and will also attend in-person classes four days a week.
Students will continue to learn virtually from home on Mondays. Students in pre-kindergarten through third grade began returning to classrooms in early December.
School children across Prince William struggling with reading, new data show Jeanine Lawson and Peter Candland were two of three members of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors to shuffle out of a School Board training session on Implicit bias, a section of a larger training on Critical Race Theory.
With tens of thousands of children out of a classroom, School Board focused instead on racism training
Prince William County’s youngest and most vulnerable students are struggling to read.
New Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening data for the Prince William County School Division obtained exclusively by PLN show an alarming increase of students from kindergarten through third grade who need reading help. The test, required by the Virginia Department of Education to be given to children in the aforementioned grade levels, is used to identify gaps that could hinder the development of a child’s reading skills.