Accomack County Schools plan to go back to 5 Day face to face learning in fall

The Accomack County School System has announced that things will be much closer to normal when students return from summer vacation. On Shore Talk Monday,  Dr. Rhonda Hall said that students will be back in the classroom but there will still be a virtual option available.

“It’s going to look a little bit different as far as how we deliver instruction next year,” said Hall. “This year we are going to provide parents with a virtual option, however teachers will not be providing that virtual option, Virtual Virginia will provide the virtual option for our students.”

Dr. Hall said that the availability of the virtual option will depend on the student meeting certain criteria.

“You’re going to be applying this year for virtual, it’s not just automatic,” she added. “Virtual Virginia wants us to do some screening on kids including some criteria that the students will have to meet in order for them to be virtual next year. They must have reliable access to high-speed Internet, we know that’s a big issue on the Eastern Shore. We have had students who have chosen virtual this year and they have not been successful due to the fact that they have not had high-speed Internet. Virtual Virginia says you need high-speed Internet because everything of course is virtual on the students gonna have to demonstrate success with virtual. And we’re going to look at that information but I’ll look at what kind of grades they made this year in virtual, what was the attendance, how they participated… so we’re gonna look at all of those things in the application packet of the parent will provide for us.”

Parent surveys are in the mail and all parents, whether you wish to access the virtual option or not, need to return the survey as soon as possible. This will give the school system the information needed to plan for the opening of schools in September.

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