AWOL kids puts them at risk: NYC public school absenteeism is too high
Too many New York City public school kids are missing too much school and that’s a very big problem. So why, then, is hardly anyone sounding the alarm bells?
During COVID we saw that in order to learn, to really learn, kids and young kids especially need to be in school. Not logged into Google Classroom or Zoom but sitting in a room with a teacher, surrounded by kids, focusing on real things in front of you.
In large part because kids across America learned remotely for too long, the pandemic was a time of epic learning loss from which kids still haven’t recovered.
Now that COVID is long over, the problem of missing classes remains. A new report from the Manhattan........© NY Daily News
