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In an email to Rappahannock County High School teachers, Principal Jimmy Swindler called for an all-hands-on-deck effort to “as legitimately as we can reduce the number of failing grades.”
In a survey sent out to both parents and teachers, respondents were asked to weigh in on the decision. The majority of both parents and teachers favored the return to in-person lessons. Dr. Grimsley shared comments from teachers as well as parents.
At their regular meeting on Tuesday night, the Rappahannock County School Board unanimously decided to move forward with a plan to resume in-person classes, which for some lower grades would begin on Jan. 5.
Unedited video of the Video: Rappahannock County School Board Meeting Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020.
Nearly fifty people attended Monday night’s Board of Supervisors meeting at the Rappahannock County Elementary School to listen to the latest — and possibly last — public hearing on the provisional comprehensive plan.
Wonderful Wednesday Day Camp kicked off on Wednesday, Sep. 23 with more than 100 Rappahannock County Public School students attending as either campers or camp counselors.
In the midst of a pandemic that has shrunk the job market overnight and left much of the workforce unemployed, two Rappahannock High School graduates are forging lucrative new careers in construction.
During his visit last Thursday, US Assistant Secretary of Education Frank Brogan applauded Rappahannock County Public Schools for being “probably the northernmost schools in the state of Virginia that are reopened in a traditional model.”
RICHMOND — There are no dodgeball games, cookouts or other rushing events at Virginia Commonwealth University’s campus in Richmond, but fraternities and sororities are still recruiting new brothers and sisters.
RICHMOND — Social isolation due to the coronavirus has become a stressor for many college students across Virginia, who report that studying is more difficult and their mental health is suffering.
RICHMOND — An effort to require Virginia school districts provide in-person classes to students with poor internet access during the COVID-19 pandemic is most likely dead.
Having overcome daunting multi-layered obstacles during the course of the past year perhaps it’s not too surprising that Wakefield Country Day School hasn’t let the unprecedented pandemic stop its forward momentum.
Rappahannock County Public Schools Wellness Center Grants Project Coordinator Susan Stoltzman delivered a status update to the School Board Tuesday night on funding for the school’s planned wellness center, including the search for a “medical arm.”
Rappahannock County School Board Meeting; Rappahannock County Elementary School Gym, 6:30 PM
Rappahannock County Public Schools held their “second” first day of school on Thursday, Aug. 27. Teachers and staff greeted Group B students for the first time for in-school instruction after Group A, which had returned Monday.
The tennis players at the Rappahannock County Park now have a new “stairway to heaven” thanks to aspiring Eagle Scout Domenic Del Grosso.
The first day of school seemed orderly and quiet in Rappahannock County, but with fewer students and more masks.
Rappahannock’s superintendent on how the public schools are reacting to their first COVID-19 case
It didn’t take long for Rappahannock County Public School officials to confirm the first case of COVID-19 at the high school.
RICHMOND — Virginia college students returning to campus amid the COVID-19 pandemic have been equipped with masks, hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes. Now, many also have coronavirus testing data available at their fingertips.
Any day things could change. That’s the reality. No matter how much planning and preparation has gone into making classroom learning possible, one outbreak could shut everything down again.
Faculty and students reflect on their COVID-19 journey and the challenges they face going back to school.
At two private schools in Rappahannock County, faculty and staff are preparing themselves to teach classes five days a week starting Wednesday, Aug. 26.
With school about to reopen, many parents are in need of child care for the days when their children are remote learning and then, if they’re able to find it, needing to scrape together the money to pay for an expense they hadn’t planned for.
These are the school bus routes for the school year that starts Monday, August 24,2020. RCPS Families.
Rappahannock County Public Schools (RCPS) is moving forward with plans to establish a school-based wellness center, and it just so happens that the person with the experience to do so lives right here in the county seat.
The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation (CMCF) has approved $817,050 in grant funding that will allow the Lord Fairfax Community College to greatly expand its health education offerings to area high school students.
It may be impossible to predict the future while mired in a raging pandemic, but Rappahannock County Public Schools (RCPS) has prepared protocols for virtually every COVID-19-related scenario it can imagine in advance of a looming August 24 reopening.
Rappahannock County Public Schools welcomed nine new staff members to the school family on Monday, August 3rd.
The totals are in. Rappahannock County Public Schools’ kindergartners have $9,773 in their MyFuture savings accounts, an average of $178, including interest.
Benjamin Allen Temple, former principal of the Rappahannock County Elementary School, has been acquitted in Hanover County Circuit Court of serious charges stemming from an incident last September at King’s Dominion.
Thanks to a forward-thinking group of Rappahannock community members, COVID-19 didn’t stop 89 Rappahannock youth from enjoying the month of July with their friends in outdoor camp-like settings.
For more information, visit the school's Boarddocs site
No longer will basketball players at the Rappahannock County Park have to run down into the forest to retrieve errant basketballs and risk picking up a good case of native poison ivy.
In the shade under a picnic shelter at the Rappahannock County park, nine-year-old Lucas Morey holds up his still-wet painting of a farmer and a pig in a green field. “The pig’s got mud running down his face,” he says, gesturing to a squiggly brown line. Lucas says art has been his favorite part of summer camp so far.
VHSL makes fall and winter sports decisions; RCPS will follow guidance
Finally, Wes, the you’re-a-commie thing went out with Richard Nixon. I fear you are stuck in the past. It is one thing to say you support the message Black lives matter.
“We are so fortunate that during these difficult times amidst polarization and divisiveness plaguing the state and nation as a whole that we live in a community that truly does come together to do what is right, especially for our most vulnerable populations,”
‘LFCC will maintain social distancing through rearranged furniture, modified classroom layouts and staggered class times’
Rappahannock’s public schools are putting together inaugural ‘equity team’
‘All of our lives were irrevocably altered by COVID-19’
Following Bynum’s speech, Chairman Wes Mills delivered a statement expressing his consternation at Bynum’s appearance at the gathering.
Two groups of students will alternate class days; ‘It’s going to be a team effort, and it’s going to take a village’
When teacher Kreighton Long found he would have to teach the rest of his Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. History class online, he took to YouTube.
Before the pandemic Lindsey Wangsgard was the keeper of a busy family calendar. She planned family vacations and many activities — all while running her own small skincare business from home.
‘This is proving to be one of the most difficult challenges school districts are ever going to face’
“The [$69,000] planning grant is to study the feasibility of establishing a school-based wellness center in the schools,” Rappahannock County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Shannon Grimsley educates the News.
On a cool Saturday morning in late June, 17 high-school seniors became WCDS Alumni in the 41st Graduation Ceremony at Wakefield Country Day School in Huntly.
Hearthstone School, which closed its Sperryville campus on March 16 in response to COVID-19, will implement distance learning for the entire 2020–21 school year.
At a special work session, the School Board unanimously approved a proposal for reopening schools. Officially, the schools are slated to resume activities on Aug. 24.
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