Some 30 students have been attending such classes two or three Saturdays a month since January. They insist they wanted to. Beating the girls was just a bonus. Schools Superintendent W. Randolph Nichols explained, is something that's particularly necessary when the budget is tight. South Hampton Roads is seeing more of this growth in class time.
Every district offers after-school remediation.
Portsmouth conducts expanded summer schools, inviting all students in danger of failing a grade. Virginia Beach this summer will almost double the length of summer school for some students to seven weeks, and invite many more students to expanded summer remedia tion programs. Norfolk's Tidewater Park Elementary used Saturday classes to help dramatically raise its pass rates. His school sits at the north end of the city, near the Norfolk line. It's flanked by renovated housing projects that replaced the most dilapidated neighborhood in the city.