Richmond school board gives update on Fox, George Wythe, cell phone policy - WRIC ABC 8News

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The schoolhouse committee for Richmond Public Schools gave an update connected William Fox Elementary and the caller George Wythe High School astatine a gathering Tuesday, Jan. 17.

William Fox Elementary

The committee released photos of the wrong of Fox Elementary and the projected plan of what the reconstructed schoolhouse could look similar erstwhile it’s done. As Architects are successful the plan phase, the committee and families are capable to get a much factual look astatine the imaginable aboriginal of the school.

So far, the architecture steadfast has finished assessing the information of the structure, begun the plan signifier and travel up with an estimation of however overmuch reconstruction volition cost. The adjacent measurement for Fox is to regenerate the roof.

George Wythe High School

At the caller George Wythe High School, adjustments are being made to the room layout based connected the board’s feedback. Officials are besides wrapping up the program for parking to see conveyance charging stations and a genitor drop-off lane.

The schoolhouse committee docket besides mentioned builders are finishing up the program for diversion fields, a stadium and bleacher seating astatine the caller George Wythe.

Cell Phone Policy

The committee besides received an update Tuesday nighttime connected the compartment telephone argumentation wrong schools. The Digital Working Group task unit has been moving to find options to restrict compartment phones during the schoolhouse time to bounds distractions.

Superintendent Jason Kamras said the task unit recommended the committee tighten up enforcement of their existent argumentation and that utilizing compartment phones astatine schoolhouse is simply a large distraction.

Kamras said the Digital Working Group recommends that students who repeatedly interruption the argumentation by taking their phones retired during schoolhouse should beryllium the ones to person to enactment their phones successful a pouch. The pouch strategy is already successful spot implicit astatine Hopewell schools, and Richmond schoolhouse committee subordinate Mariah White said the argumentation is besides already successful spot astatine the Richmond Alternative School.

Kamras said helium spoke with the precocious schoolhouse advisory past week and they weren’t keen connected the thought of limiting students’ entree to compartment phones. They did accidental it’s distracting but besides mentioned students would astir apt lend to oregon effort and grounds fights adjacent if their entree to compartment phones are limited.

The committee gathering went connected aft 10 p.m. past night, truthful committee members moved on, with immoderate mentioning they’d similar to perceive what parents and students deliberation earlier they determine connected anything.