NY Times: More Than a Million Students Failed to Show Up for Classes Last Year
A New York Times report says as the coronavirus swept across the U.S., more than 1 million children, many of them in poor neighborhoods, failed to show up for public school classes, either online or in person. The steepest decline the report said was among kindergarten students. The newspaper said more than 340,000 kindergarten children did not show up for instruction. “In the country’s poorest neighborhoods, tens of thousands of 6-year-olds will begin first grade having missed out on a traditional kindergarten experience.” The Times said. Kindergarten is where many youngsters receive their first exposure to numbers and letters and where they can