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Will pandemic mean fewer Cincinnati students held back a grade this year?
As the end of the 2020-21 school year approaches across Tri-State districts, officials are grappling with how to work with students who may have fallen behind during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted at 5:49 PM, Apr 14, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-14 22:27:45-04
CINCINNATI â Some local students and their families might be able to expect the district to be a little more lenient about moving students onto the next grade this year.
As the end of the 2020-21 school year approaches across Tri-State districts, officials are grappling with how to work with students who may have fallen behind during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Minister Norma Foley. Photo:Frank McGrath
She said that while there have been outbreaks in primary schools nationally, I only know of only one or two cases in Wexford schools from before Christmas. However when you are in a school and you are the principal, and you have the responsibility for all 275 children in your care as well as the welfare of your staff, and when the transmission rate is over 24 per cent in the community, then health and safety must come first. From third to sixth classes we operate in a class bubble and the children were put into pods last September. That worked really well; the children played together and settled back to school routines well. We changed the pods every time we had a break of more than 11 days or so. At the junior end, there was no direction to put children into pods so they operated as a class bubble. You cannot keep a class of 30 junior infants socially distanced. It should be noted that they missed out on their last few months of creche
Oliver Curran loves to talk. To him, watching news about politics or chatting with his mom is more fun than playing with toy trucks.
As much as he loves talking, Oliver, 12, can’t read, his mother, Nancy Curran, said. Curran brought her concern to Oliver’s special education team at Coonley Elementary School in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood, but instructors told her Oliver just needed more time, she said.
That was more than a year ago, Curran said.
Now, with Oliver attending school virtually due to the pandemic, Curran has noticed other students are already reading in her son’s seventh-grade class of fellow special education students.