Lexington and Rockbridge County school administrators and teachers are trying several strategies to get kids to come to school.
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Parents said Lizzy Braman’s fourth-graders blame themselves and feel abandoned. Her students will be divided among the other two fourth-grade teachers, creating classrooms of more than 30 students each.
Lexington City Schools officials want to attract teachers’ aides and staff to work with special needs children and an increasing number of non-English language speaking students.
Administrators are offering increased wages to encourage more pandemic-fatigued teachers to work this summer.
Schools in the Rockbridge area are making plans to offer summer sessions to help students make up the learning losses associated with online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lexington school officials hope to have someone in place by June.