Bess Elementary students report for in-person classes in Gaston County Schools.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Gaston County schools say the percentage of students earning F s during first quarter has doubled over the previous year.
Those reports echo what s being heard across the country: More students are failing their classes as the coronavirus upends in-person instruction.
CMS students spent the first quarter of this year learning from home. The district says 14% of them got at least one failing grade, compared with about 7% a year earlier. Elementary and K-8 schools returned to in-person rotations second quarter, but those grades aren’t in yet.
Gaston County opened with in-person rotations, where students spend two days a week in class and learn remotely the other three. Gaston reports about 11% had at least one F in fall of 2019, and that rose to almost 23% this year.