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Failing grades and low attendance: More proof we’d better reopen schools
Chicago Sun Times ^ | Feb 25, 2021 | CST Editorial Board

Posted on 03/01/2021 10:55:52 AM PST by SJackson

Many young people, frustrated by the inadequacies of remote learning during the pandemic, have likely just given up.

ith all that the public has learned about the many shortcomings of remote learning, no one should be surprised by the latest data showing just how severely Chicago schoolchildren are struggling during the pandemic.

The alarming news from the Chicago Public Schools, as reported on Thursday by Nader Issa of the Sun-Times, is that kids are failing classes more and attending school less, especially high school students.

Elementary students are receiving “F” grades at double the rate of last year. Black and Latino students are receiving significantly more “F” grades. High school attendance has declined by 4.3%, and elementary school attendance is down by 0.9%.

Editorials Add this to the growing mountain of evidence that reopening schools must be a priority, locally and nationally. The only question is how, not if.

If we fail to do so, the educational and economic impact could be enormous, as a new analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco warns. Thousands more students could drop out, the study concludes, and this would mean fewer high school graduates enrolling in college, and down the line, lower lifetime earnings and lower job productivity among the young people affected by closures today.

The closing of high schools during the pandemic is even being blamed for a surge in carjackings in Chicago and across the country. “With many schools closed for in-person education, school-aged youths with free time — some as young as 12-15 — are committing a large portion of the increase in carjackings,” the Police Executive Research Forum asserts.

Back to school — real school As it stands, we can understand why failing grades are up and attendance is down.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


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CPS open to improving remote learning as F’s increase, attendance drops
1 posted on 03/01/2021 10:55:52 AM PST by SJackson
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To: SJackson

Nothing a round of reparations won’t fix. Who needs English and math.


2 posted on 03/01/2021 10:56:32 AM PST by SJackson (If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun...folks in Philly like a good brawl, BH Obama)
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Only the dumb and/or unmotivated suffer in remote learning.

Smart kids excel at it.

And I contend the dumb/unmotivated don’t stand a chance anyway.


3 posted on 03/01/2021 10:58:14 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: SJackson

So when kids aren’t in school, they go do carjackings instead? What the heck?


4 posted on 03/01/2021 10:59:41 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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So the kids to back to school and what? 1. Mostly passing grades - which are worthless given the slime curriculum and unionized worthless 'eddikators'. 2. What the **** diff does attendance make given item 1? If your child is not in a private school, they are attending the Yugo of education.
5 posted on 03/01/2021 11:00:14 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: SJackson

So, since so much time has been missed, do kids advance to the next grade automatically? Domino effect eventually in proficiency I would think. 😯


6 posted on 03/01/2021 11:00:32 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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The closing of high schools during the pandemic is even being blamed for a surge in carjackings in Chicago and across the country.

Proof that for a certain percentage of the student body, high school is a prison surrogate, to the benefit of society in general and to the detriment of all who go to high school in order to teach and/or to learn.

7 posted on 03/01/2021 11:00:39 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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It’s all part ofthe liberal plan. Stupid sheep are easier to lead to slaughter than smart sheep.

When young people sarted getting their news from entertainment shows (Jon Stewart. Bill Maher for example) the left knew they were on the right track.

Message is to never think for yourself, just parrot. ( Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter)

Now they are making sure that their future constituency can neither think or read.


8 posted on 03/01/2021 11:07:48 AM PST by pnut22
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To: SJackson

Failing grades and low attendance seems to be just what the Doctor ordered for the current regime and the MSM and Hollywood and all of them. The rich lefties’ kids are being educated. The rest of the kids don’t need to learn how to read and right and cipher. They can live on welfare all their lives or goo to work for Soros in fun jobs where they get to break and burn stuff and occasionally kill people.


9 posted on 03/01/2021 11:12:01 AM PST by arthurus ( Wu Han.^)
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To: SJackson

When are people going to wake up and realize that school closures are designed to stunt the intellec of our youngest and most vulnerable children?


10 posted on 03/01/2021 11:18:08 AM PST by Dacula
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To: SJackson

’ Black and Latino students are receiving significantly more F grades.’
Why is that? Is Whitey being blamed for those failures too?

Why not just fail Whitey so there can be “equality”?


11 posted on 03/01/2021 11:19:52 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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You can bet they are padding these attendance numbers. I would expect 10% drop out or more rather than just 4.3%

Remote learning works you and me, because we’re adults and motivated to a specific goal with a course objective.

But for an ninth grader trying to absorb four or more courses and build a knowledge base, it’s very different. Their attention span just isn’t there unless there’s an adult present to keep order and the class focused. Plus, the competition angle, trying to do better than your peers, is diminished. They’re just another box on the screen now.

Yes, smart and dedicated students and do this and even excel. But that isn’t even close to a majority.


12 posted on 03/01/2021 11:21:14 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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The CTU is a criminal organization.

L


13 posted on 03/01/2021 11:24:31 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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Isn't giving grades and requiring attendance white supremacist? Shouldn't all groups receive the same percentages of grades or just passed along? I know I read that somewhere... mega sarcasm tag on the recommendations.
14 posted on 03/01/2021 11:29:12 AM PST by Truth29
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To: pnut22

One only has to look at the headlines on this site to see where the state of Illinois is heading. https://illinoisfamily.org/


15 posted on 03/01/2021 11:29:45 AM PST by Maudeen (God is not in control of our lives until we give it to Him. Think about it!)
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To: SJackson

I’m just surprised they still give out “F’s”.


16 posted on 03/01/2021 11:39:56 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: SJackson

Two years ago you could easily go to jail for keeping a child out of school for a few days. And more than a few days? — child would flunk the year.


17 posted on 03/01/2021 11:44:17 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Mariner

“Only the dumb and/or unmotivated suffer in remote learning. Smart kids excel at it.”

Not always. And “unmotivated” is not the same as “dumb.” A student can be motivated but dumb, or unmotivated but smart.

Remote learning is soul-crushing for many: rich or poor, smart or dumb, unmotivated or motivated.

I define “remote learning,” generally speaking, as about half live synchronous teaching and half asynchronous (worksheets and Khan Academy or YouTube videos), with most of the students’ cameras off and lots of unsupervised “breakout sessions”, as is the case in much of CA. It’s not the same as something like National University Virtual High School, designed to be a good remote program.

It’s also very, very easy to cheat with remote learning. Now that some schools are going back hybrid (2 days a week in person), teachers are finding students aren’t doing as well without their cheat sheets on the wall, Siri, calculators nearby, Google translate, etc.

Kindergartners can’t even find their books—if they were in person in a classroom, their teacher could help them locate it.

It’s tragic what’s going on; teen suicide and depression and loneliness are horrible.


18 posted on 03/01/2021 11:54:22 AM PST by olivia3boys
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To: SJackson
1. 32 million adults can not read in the United States equal to 14% of the population.
2. 21% of US adults read below the 5th grade level.
3. 19% of high school graduates can not read.
4. 85% of juveniles who interact with the juvenile court system are considered functionally illiterate.
5. 70% of inmates in America's prisons can not read above the fourth grade level.

15 US Literacy Rate and Illiteracy Statistics

Parents should have taken this opportunity to correct the deficiencies in their children's education caused by government schools.
19 posted on 03/01/2021 11:57:08 AM PST by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: olivia3boys

“Remote learning is soul-crushing for many:”

Hyperbolic, at best.

Remote learning is not necessarily isolation.

There are still kids in the neighborhood. And lots of opportunity for mixing.

Force them out the door.


20 posted on 03/01/2021 12:01:22 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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