Failure rates in math and English jumped as much as sixfold for some of the most vulnerable students in Maryland’s largest school system, according to data released as the pandemic’s toll becomes increasingly visible in schools across the country.
In but one stark example, more than 36 percent of ninth-graders from low-income families failed the first marking period in English. That compares with fewer than 6 percent last year, when the same students took English in eighth grade.
“It breaks my heart to see so many of these numbers,” Rebecca Smondrowski, a school board member, said after the numbers were shared at a board meeting Thursday. “We knew that gaps were going to get bigger, but these are huge.”
The data comes as neighboring Fairfax County in Virginia recently reported a sharp increase in failing grades for its students — one of the first systems nationally to detail the fallout of pandemic-driven online education.
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That’s because breathing in carbon dioxide prevents oxygen from going to the brain.
The plannedemic is from the masks. CDC: 99% respiratory hospital patients because of masks.
Strictly nonsense! The CDC never said this.
Duh! Big News! If kids don’t go to school they don’t learn!
Open the schools. Tell the teachers’ Union that if the teachers won’t teach, they won’t get paid!
This is exactly what the left wants. Keep people stupid and dependent on the government.
Not everyone is fit for school and interested in it.