It was during P.E. class that Castor Rossmanith "eloped." But his parents said they didn't learn the extent of what happened - that their son traversed a busy street before someone phoned police - until they obtained security footage from the gas station.

Woodbridge Middle School math teacher Stacey Heaney's winter break wish for her students is that they put down their devices and have "plain old kid fun." To make that possible, she sent all 400 seventh grade students home for the break with a brand-new board game.

"We also saw an increase of one percentage point of our dropout rate from the previous year in 2020," Berry added. The dropout rate, which increased from 1.2% to 2.2%, is still better than the state average of 4.27%.

Funding options for a planned addition and renovation at Amherst County High School were given deep review during the Amherst County Board of Supervisors' final meeting of 2021. The board on Dec. 21 met with Davenport & Company, the county's financial consultant, and looked at four different ways to finance each of the two options, one being the first phase and the other all phases combined.

Sun Gazette Newspapers provides content to, but otherwise is unaffiliated with, InsideNoVa or Rappahannock Media LLC.] Arlington Public Schools' decision to "pause" athletic and other extracurricular activities for the first half of January has been met with dissent in the ranks, eye-rolls from other jurisdictions and a full-frontal attack from a parents' group that contends the action is another hair-trigger, ass-backward response by school officials to the pandemic.

The Southampton County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously at its Dec. 14 meeting to table a "parental rights" resolution that could impact funding of the county's public schools and to accept an invitation from the Southampton County School Board to meet for a work session. The school board voted 8-0 on Dec.

The Douglass High School Commemorative Committee, which was appointed by the Loudoun County School Board, said it is willing to study the operation of segregated schools and the sale of the Douglass School property as part of effort to examine the effects of exclusion in Loudoun County, committee co-chair Erica Bush told the Times-Mirror.

Borrowing for elementary facilities may speed up school consolidation The Halifax County School Board will likely choose an architectural firm to oversee construction of a new high school this week or next, said Superintendent of Schools Mark Lineburg, who noted a decision could come at either a Jan.