“Because we know there’s so many students out there who are struggling, they are not making adequate academic progress," said Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie as he toured New River Middle School. "They may be in difficult home situations, these students must be back in school, it’s the best place for them to be."
The school’s principal said hundreds of kids have come back since the winter break, and of those, about 200 were struggling with failing grades while they were doing remote learning.
“We had a lot of students that were not doing well prior to coming back to campus, and since they returned, I don’t have hard numbers, but I’d say right around 90% of those students are doing significantly better than they were previously,” said Melinda Wessinger, principal of New River Middle School.