NORFOLK, Va. — Several of Victoria Manning’s fellow Virginia Beach School Board members and the superintendent criticized a post she made on social media that decried the cost and necessity of educating children who didn’t grow up speaking English.
Manning said she wrote on Facebook after a presentation during Tuesday’s board meeting about the school division’s growing English as a Second Language program.
“(Virginia Beach) schools has 300 additional ESL students in the past year. Most are from South America,” she wrote. “Our ESL budget has increased over $1 million in two years. Continuing to educate South Americans is not sustainable.”
