Jill Arsenau’s heart felt full during a recent holiday concert when her 5th-grade son, Luke, joined other children on stage for a performance. She considers the fact that he joined his classmates on stage a miracle, and it was all due to a teacher involving him and asking him to participate. “It was a huge deal to go with all […]
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School Board gets a second review of policy guiding use of sexually explicit class material
NOTE: This article was reported before the Observer’s Dec. 14 print edition went to press and was distributed the day following the Chesterfield County School Board’s meeting on Dec. 13. The board’s vote on the measure discussed in this story is reported here. At the Tuesday, Dec. 13, Chesterfield County School Board meeting, the leaders on the dais will have […]
Rough rides on CCPS buses: Chesterfield parents tell how the trend of understaffed school systems has come to their doorsteps
Awful is the word that comes up again and again when parents talk about their children’s experiences so far this year with Chesterfield County Public Schools’ bus system. “Every morning at 6 a.m. I get a call, text and email saying that my oldest [child’s] bus will be late,” parent Jamie Lee Johnson wrote in a message to the Chesterfield […]
For those with dementia, community chorus lifts spirits with song
It’s a Thursday morning in early August, and inside the Salisbury Presbyterian Church fellowship hall, a chorus of about 32 men and women, and a few children, enthusiastically launches into singing “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” from the musical “Oklahoma,” harmonizing and making hand motions when they sing about corn that “looks like it’s climbing clear up to the sky.” […]