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Keara Williams, a teacher at Hawkins High School, has already spent time this winter break to reach students in danger of failing her class if they don t make up assignments. She is among teachers setting up online office hours to help their students lift their grades after the district extended its grading policy to give students more time. Photographed in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times/TNS)
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Facing a spike in Fs, winter break isn’t a vacation for many teachers and students [Los Angeles Times :: BC-EDU-PANDEMIC-FAILING-GRADES:LA]
LOS ANGELES – During her winter break, English teacher Keara Williams has hit the phone, making call after call determinedly trying to make contact with her students and their parents.
She needs to reach 28 students, including 11 seniors, who received an “incomplete” grade at the end of the fall semester. She tells them they will fail her class if they don’t complete make-up work to raise their grade to at least a D by the end of January. There is still time to get the work done, do not give up, Williams says. And she lets them know that she is here for them all winter vacation if that’s what it takes to avoid an F.
During her winter break, English teacher Keara Williams has hit the phone, making call after call determinedly trying to make contact with her students and their parents.
She needs to reach 28 students, including 11 seniors, who received an “incomplete” grade at the end of the fall semester. She tells them they will fail her class if they don’t complete make-up work to raise their grade to at least a D by the end of January. There is still time to get the work done, do not give up, Williams says. And she lets them know that she is here for them all winter vacation if that’s what it takes to avoid an F.