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Demetrios Tsaros has a tough job: investigating reports of potential child neglect or abuse in Manchester for the state’s Division of Children Youth and Families, or DCYF.
These days, he’s getting lots of reports from schools worried about educational neglect: Kids aren’t logging onto their remote classes, and their parents are also falling off the map.
“Basically, by the time the ed neglect report comes to my desk, the school district has exhausted all these efforts, whether it’s calls, emails, letters, or visits to the home,” Tsaros said. “There’s just been really a lack of engagement with the family.”