Virginia Beach School Board votes down effort to make mask-wearing optional next fall Sara Gregory, The Virginian-Pilot © Kristen Zeis/The Virginian-Pilot Shay Coleman speaks during public at a Virginia Beach School Board meeting at the Virginia Beach School Administration Office on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. The board voted against a resolution Tuesday that would make indoor and outdoor mask-wearing optional if the state does not require them.
The Virginia Beach School Board voted down an effort to make mask-wearing optional next fall.
The decision doesn’t mean masks will be required, just that it’s still up in the air.
Board member Laura Hughes first introduced a resolution in June that would have made masks optional absent any state requirements. The board deferred any decisions until July with hopes that the state’s plans would be known by then,
What is critical race theory? And why has it received so much attention in Virginia?
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What is critical race theory? And why has it received so much attention in Virginia?
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Sara Gregory,
The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot
Nothing has ever ravaged classrooms worse than the COVID-19 virus, but the most impassioned discourse in American education right now has nothing to do with the pandemic.
Instead, as the leader of Hampton Roadsâ largest school district put it, a panic over lessons on so-called âcritical race theoryâ is dominating the publicâs attention.
âAll this noise is starting to drown out the âwhyâ of our work as educators,â Virginia Beach Superintendent Aaron Spence wrote in a Virginian-Pilot column last weekend. âThe boil over this needs to be brought down to a simmer.â
As battles flare across Virginia, including in Bedford, Botetourt and Franklin counties in the Roanoke region, here are some answers about what critical race theory is â and whatâs behind the political war that has engulfed the nationâs schools.