Classes at all of Virginia Beach’s public schools will end two hours early on seven Wednesdays in the next three months to allow teachers to have uninterrupted planning time.
The Virginia Beach School Board voted Tuesday night 9-1 to approve the half days after administrators said teachers were facing burnout just two months into the school year.
Even though five-day-a-week in-person learning is nothing new, teachers are having to try to make up for student learning loss on top of dealing with staffing shortages and COVID-19 quarantines.
