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Parents, students and teachers urge Berkeley County board to reverse proposed cuts to gifted program, pre-K and campus technology roles
Summary
More than a dozen speakers at the April 7 Berkeley County Schools meeting asked the board to halt or reconsider proposals that would reduce gifted-teacher positions, change technology-integration specialists to itinerant roles, and trim pre-K and special-education support staff.
Dozens of parents, students and district staff told the Berkeley County Schools board on April 7 that planned staffing changes would hurt students’ learning and safety.
The meeting’s public-comment period stretched for more than an hour as family members, classroom teachers and current gifted-program students described why they said the district should not reduce school-based gifted positions, pre-K aides and social workers or dissolve school-based technology-integration specialist positions.
Vanessa Stone, who identified herself as a registered voter and the vice president of the West Virginia Association for Gifted and Talented, cited district policy 2419 and state guidance and urged the board to preserve…
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