'COVID-slide' is a national trend. But what about Greenwich students?
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Students enter North Mianus School in the Riverside section of Greenwich, Conn. Tuesday, March 2, 2021.File / Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
GREENWICH — Throughout the country, educators and parents are contending with “COVID-slide” by students, a loss of learning caused by the pandemic and the subsequent shift away from in-person teaching.
But a loss of learning and the widening of the achievement gap, at least according to early reports from Greenwich Public Schools, is less pronounced in town than was perhaps anticipated.
“It’s natural coming out of an unprecedented spring where teachers were asked to pivot quickly to unfamiliar teaching patterns that one could conclude that performance would be adversely affected,” Marc D’Amico, the district’s director of curriculum for K-8 and head of K-5 leadership, told the Board of Education at its March 11 meeting. “The good news is that that is not what the data is telling us here in Greenwich.”