Rural schools battle bad internet, low attendance January 21 2021
In the final part of our series: Students return to classrooms, but educators wonder how to get kids back on track.
Part of a series on rural education under the pandemic.
Andy and Amy Jo Hellenbrand live on a little farm in south-central Wisconsin where they raise corn, soybeans, wheat, heifers, chickens, goats, bunnies and their four children, ages 5 to 12.
For the entire fall semester, the quartet of grade school students learned virtually from home, as their district elected to keep school buildings closed.
That has put a strain on the family, as well as the childrens grades and grammar.
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WCIJ: Reagan Hellenbrand, right, and her sister Lydia attend school virtually from their home in Dane, Wis., in 2020. “It’s been rough,” says their mother Amy Jo Hellenbrand. “They’re done with being homeschooled, and I’m kind of at the same point the point of being burnt out.”
Courtesy of the Hellenbrand family
By Peter Cameron