By Izz Scott LaMagdeleine, WRAL contributor
When the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, North Carolina schools had to quickly make changes to instruction. For the past ten months, educators, parents and board members alike have worked to answer one question:
How can we make sure our kids are still receiving a quality education?
WRAL reached out to all school districts to learn about their attendance policies for the year, attendance rates and how many students had failed a class.
We asked about information from both the 2019 and 2020 school years to compare rates from before and after the pandemic broke out.
In many school districts, there is still time to pull up failing grades since the semester hasn’t ended yet. Still, many reported drastically more students were failing a class this year than last.