The Guam Department of Education’s Summer School Program will not be mandatory for students with the lowest grades, according to Deputy Superintendent Joe Sanchez.
children have lost an average of five months in mathematics and four months with regard to reading. those numbers are even higher in impoverished parts of the various cities of america. so certainly it s a very difficult decision and why many schools are saying yes, we must do this in a more hybrid fashion. if we close, we do it temporarily and try to get the kids back as quickly as possible. again, the health of the children, the safety of the children is what is most important. martha: they need socialization and time together. we need therapy programs in schools. one of the things that you just touched on in the loss of learning, that increases anxiety in kids. when they re nervous that they re left behind or that they re going to get in school and they re not going to be able to keep up. here s students that scored proficient and above over 2021, that proficiency level in math fell by 14.2%.
in reading language arts by 6.3%. those are big drops. so my question is, for teachers across the country, if your students are not meeting the proficiency level, shouldn t we consider holding them back so that they have time to catch up and then advance to the next grade when they re ready? i think many teachers and school administrators have talked about that. i think the alternative, what they found is perhaps to have summer glasses, perhaps to have classes outdoors. hoping that perhaps there will be less of a spread of covid during the warmer months. that is very important. but you bring up also very incredibly important point. that in seeing those drops in scores, we re also seeing that high schoolers now are tending to more likely drop out of school and as well many students
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