08-06-1979 (cutline): Antoi Harrington (left) and Robert Winthrow are friends.
NL Published Caption: Benedictine High School's Cadet Corps in formation behind the school. 10-8-61 50th anniversary
In September 1961, students entered Westhampton School in Richmond. That fall, Daisy Jane Cooper became the first African-American student to integrate the junior high school; the following year, she made similar history at Thomas Jefferson High School.
In July 1968, a summer session class of journalism students worked on the yearbook, “The Sunfire,” at the Collegiate Schools in Henrico County.
In April 1955, students at Ridge School in Henrico County enjoyed their new merry-go-round. It was presented to the school by the PTA, which had collected donations for playground equipment.
In September 1967, students’ motorcycles lined the parking lot at Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond on the first day of school.
NL Published caption: Children romp at William Fox Elementary School before classes. The Christmas holidays ended today for pupils in the area
05-03-1979 (cutline): Pupils sit under an atop homemade wooden loft at Cary Elementary School.
08-30-1971 (cutline): Miss Susan R. McCandlish greets her fifth graders on their first day at Chimborazo School.
03-29-1971: Young student listeds to playback in reading class. The program was to be used the following fall for first graders in Richmond city schools.
04-18-1982 (cutline): Video equipment used in a visual literacy program, paid for by Title I in Richmond.
09-06-1989 (cutline): Thelma Smith, a former teacher who came to school yesterday to help, pinned bus numbers on pupils at Bellevue Elementary School.
09-03-1985 (cutline): Corey Green on bus, ready to head home after 1st day of school at John B. Cary School.
05-03-1979: John B. Cary Elementary School library.
06-16-1989 (cutline): Doing something--Patricia Lancaster, Boushall Middle School curriculum specialist, is surrounded by some of the pupils taking part in the "Becoming a Woman" program.
07-13-1979 (cutline): In Super Mint factory--Stephanie McIntosh, Becky Blum and Chris Minney (left to right) made Astonishments this week in the Superintendent's School for the Gifted.
09-08-1972: Students cross street on Forest Hill Avenue aided by crossing guard.
09-01-1970 (cutline): "It's different. It's a new experience. Everybody's trying to make it work. I think it will work." These comments by Susan Lippsitz, a new student at Thomas Jefferson High School, are reflective of those by several high and middle school students in their second day of the school term under a new court-ordered desegregation plan.
07-11-1976 (cutline): Blackwell Elementary students examine a bell in front of Treasury building in Washington D.C. The Richmond elementary school class was part of Class-on-Wheels, a summer school program. The federally financed program was designed to give disadvantaged studens the opportunity to travel by bus throughout Virginia.
Students leave a city school bus at Thompson Middle School, where some of them are to board a Virginia Transit Co. bus taking them to Maymont School on Sept. 1, 1970. Thompson, in the annexed area on Forest Hill Avenue, and Maymont, near Byrd Park, are paired under the city's court-ordered desegregation plan.
10-02-1975 (cutline): Counselor Libby Hoffman uses pictures, recorded story to teach 'self worth.'
05-14-1971 (cutline): Mr. J.C. Binford with his 11th grade American History Class. This was one of the largest classes at George Wythe.
Before you get all indignant about "those radical socialists at the ACLU," ask yourself how it'd go over if the same tax dollars were put toward public schools grounded in the tenets of Islam, Judaism, Santeria or Wicca?
The Hanover County board is considering a departure from the Virginia School Boards Association, a 116-year-old organization that seldom if ever courts controversy. It may join a conservative group instead.
The suit says the curriculum and “anti-racism policy” violates the rights of parents and students, specifically by indoctrinating children with elements of “critical race theory.”
The unheeded warnings before a teacher was shot at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News played out like a bad horror movie.
It's hard to see how a tactic that has so intentionally fomented distrust between students, teachers and parents can be good for learning. Gov. Glenn Youngkin's policies have stoked animus against transgender people, tacitly endorsed censorship and stifled classroom lessons about systemic racism.
