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Parents, teachers and students urge school board to keep elementary language classes and guaranteed field experiences
Summary
During a Feb. 27 public hearing on the FY26 budget, more than a dozen speakers — including teachers, parents, students and community partners — asked the Albemarle County School Board to restore or preserve the Foreign Language in Elementary Schools (FLES) program and to maintain guaranteed field experiences for all students.
At a Feb. 27 public hearing before a school board budget work session, teachers, students, parents and community partners asked the Albemarle County School Board to reverse proposed cuts that would eliminate the district’s Foreign Language in Elementary Schools program and scale back plans to expand guaranteed field experiences.
Teacher Kate Gary told the board she and Broadus Wood instructional staff “wrote this letter to urge you to reconsider the decision to eliminate the FLES program.” Gary said Senorita Schott’s Spanish instruction had helped students “blossom” academically and socially and credited the program…
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