CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – A week into new weapons screenings at Albemarle’s three high schools, the progress report says “needs improvement”. That from School Board Chair Kate Acuff on WINA Morning News after students spoke at this week’s school board meeting complaining the screenings are making them late to class.
“It needs to get better quickly, because kids are eager to be in school and you don’t want to stymie their enthusiasm before they get in the front door,” Acuff said.
She said they were able to pilot the screenings last year at varsity football and basketball games. But when it came to screening some 2000 students at Albemarle, and 1000-plus at Western Albemarle and Monticello high schools, “we hit snags, to say the least”…