RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY/WRIC) — Governor Ralph Northam is expected to announce his support for extending the school year through summer to ensure students are prepared for the next academic year.
“One of the things that I think is very important that we will be announcing tomorrow is that we want to extend our classrooms this summer to allow our children to catch up so that everybody will be ready in the fall,” Northam said. “We’re working with our teachers, our school boards, our superintendents.”
The announcement is expected Friday during the governor’s scheduled press conference at 11 a.m., which 10 On Your Side plans to carry live on-air and on WAVY.com.
Additional details are not available yet on which grades this will impact.Gov. Northam wants kids back in classrooms. Could local, smaller dis
No they need there summer break just as usual these kids have been through enough already there mentality needs a break
The life they are being prepared for will not be giving them any summer off. That tradition is left over from our agrarian roots. I would love to see these modern kids do what their summer vacation was initially designed for. Poor babies, they have been thu so much.
They need there summer break
Their, not there.
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She has one. Hinting to you to troll her. Ask for her #.
No, this unexceptable for these children to go to school all year including. They have been through enought yall are expecting to much for the kids grade K – 8. Let them recharge there mind, body, and soul.
Maybe you should have went to school longer. Your spelling is not good. Also, you constantly use the wrong version of a word. It is unacceptable. Also it is their mind, not there.
This is crazy Kids have been going to school all year just in different ways. They need a break as do parents
These children have been through so much this for over a year now, how can you possibly think about continuing this craziness over the summer months? They need a break as I’m sure that their parents do. I think it’s very important that our children and grandchildren have some kind of normalcy in their lives, though there’s been nothing normal about this past year they still know that they get the summer off from school and they deserve to have this time before the craziness starts again. As it is, do we even know if these children are going to be put through to their next grade or are you going to hold them all back because of this craziness. Let’s be real here these are our children and grandchildren nieces and nephews attendance school and our daughters, and nieces and nephews or spouse that are teaching the class as well, Everybody needs a really good breather here. Have you given any thought for our teachers? you’re going to burn out our teachers if they aren’t already which I’m sure some of them are before The fall session even starts. Please I urge you to reconsider this decision and not have these children and teachers attend school over the summer and be put through more stress.
Start the new year of school in September
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/06/todays-worship-of-children-borders-on-the-perverse
I just want to Thank Ralph with all my heart for making the covid situation much worse than it needed to be, and to make the effects last even longer than we ever could have imagined. Teachers unions and Ralph’s compadres have kept schools closed much longer than they should have been. The science says it over and over again. Ralph and his don’t care. They just want to exert power. Adults have a hard time going to work safely and it’s tons harder when you need to school your kids ourselves. Are we teachers ? How good a job did we do ? Kids were deprived of their friends, educational and emotional interaction, learning competition, and where do we get our refund for the education we paid for our kids to get IN SCHOOL ? Everything else is less expensive virtually and online so Ralph wastes his breath telling me otherwise. And now, because Ralph refused to listen to science, but listened to liars Fauci and Pelosi, everyone has to also cancel the vacations they need more than ever and further harm the towns and businesses that rely on vacations for income. Let’s not forget that Fauci is also quite probably the reason we even have this pandemic in the 1st place. He used our federal tax dollars to pay the Wuhan Lab to look into, research, and experiment with viruses. It now appears that those doing the experimenting mistakenly released this virus to the outside. Fauci still has a job ? He’s as trustworthy as senior murderer Gov. Cuomo in N.Y. Ralph is still listening to that man ?
The parents, students and teachers need to protest this and start fresh in the fall!! I feel so sorry for all of you.
These kids need summer break! They need to have some normalcy back in their life. School all year would not only be punishing the children, but also the parents. I am afraid this would also cause the suicide rate to rise drastically.
Kids deserve their break enough is enough. I would expect the governor to think this because I’m sure his kids are grown. Not only do the kids need a break but parents as well. This has nothing to do with the kids this is money and politics. I say no and parents should have a input in this matter. Tired parents first they wanna push our kids back into school with no guarantees of safety. Danville school system is a complete joke and they don’t care I love my child and I don’t want no harm of any sort placed upon him or other children. Stop playing Russian roulette with our children. You wouldn’t do it to your kids. Tired of politics periodt.
I dont feel its safe for the students to return now or during the summer. Kids will not be wearing 2mask for 8 hrs a day. This is all about funding not safety! Atleast wait for September to give the vaccine enough time to work. Kids have lost parents and grandparents to this virus do you think they want to loose their life? I’m against it my family has lost enough loved ones. We homeschooling.