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Teachers, community members urge board to limit testing and include high schoolers in learning-loss plans
Summary
Multiple public commenters asked the school board to reconsider heavy testing in early grades, to preserve student engagement and to include high school grades in plans addressing learning loss.
Three community speakers used the board’s public-comment period to urge attention to classroom instruction and student well-being, focusing on the volume of testing in early grades and the need to address learning loss among high school students. Aaron Reed, vice president of the Lynchburg Education Association and a 28-year teacher at E.C. Glass High School, said the board’s declared focus on academic rigor should not yield to “educational fads and for-profit players” and warned that…
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