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Students nationwide are falling behind. While virtual learning might be considered safer, it s also causing many to struggle. Teachers say students tend to either succeed or fail, with very little middle ground. You have your very independent kind of self-motivated kids that are going to keep trucking along are going to keep pushing through, but other students that maybe struggle a little bit more, that like someone to give them encouragement or to kind of push them on and be like, Yeah, that s right, keep going, those kids are really struggling with not having the face-to-face instruction daily, said high school teacher Nancy Sanders.
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The difficulties of learning in a pandemic are taking a big academic toll on students in Palm Beach County’s public schools, with the worst setbacks coming in poor communities where more children learn from home.
The number of students failing a class has doubled this year in the school district’s middle and high schools, while the total number of F grades nearly tripled, records from the first grading period show.
School administrators blame the spike in failing students squarely on the challenges of online learning, where it is easy for students to tune out and some children struggle to get online at all.
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25% of students in distance learning struggling in Palm Beach Co., district says December 18, 2020 at 12:20 PM EST - Updated December 18 at 6:46 PM
The Palm Beach County School District held a news conference Friday morning and said about a quarter of the students learning remotely are struggling academically.
Superintendent Donald Fennoy shared information that parents need before deciding if they would like their child to be educated through in-person or distance learning for the second semester.
Following the holiday break, classes will resume on Jan. 4. On that date, parents can enter the student portal and decide if they want to switch the method of learning for the remainder of the school year.