BETHEL (AP) â Parents in an Alaska city have called for a return to classrooms after a high failure rate among students while school buildings were closed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Lower Kuskokwim School District in Bethel made public a report showing high school students failed 59% of their classes during the first semester, KYUK-AM reported.
Students did not submit enough work to receive grades in 36% to 52% of kindergarten through eighth-grade classes, the report said. I was shocked, during the school reports, about the high numbers of students that are not engaging at all in school, said Megan Newport, the parent of a student at the Ayaprun Elitnaurvik school.