HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — After a knock on his door, third-grade student Jamie-Lee emerged to see his school principal smiling at him from his doorstep.
Nearly a third of her students at Rawson Elementary School in Hartford, Connecticut, have been unplugged from distance learning.
Across the Hartford school system, roughly 80% of students are at least partially active in distance learning.
“Of everything through this virus, that probably has worried me the most,” said Apthorpe, whose district has been reaching out to students and their families through school administrators, counselors and, as a last resort, attendance officers.
Batchelor said the effects of the disruption will not be clear until educators see students’ work in the fall, when she expects many will be dealing with various kinds of trauma from the months at home.
