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Friday, December 11, 2020

Closed Schools - three articles

Schools confront ‘off the rails’ numbers of failing grades 

The first report cards of the school year are arriving with many more Fs than usual in a dismal sign of the struggles students are experiencing with distance learning. 

School districts from coast to coast have reported the number of students failing classes has risen by as many as two or three times — with English language learners and disabled and disadvantaged students suffering the most.


20,687 MNPS students truant, school board member says

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Nashville parents, students and Metro Nashville Public Schools staff are calling for schools to reopen as more than 20,000 MNPS students are truant.


‘If the city is open, why aren’t our schools open?’ MNPS parents rally for in-person learning

NASHVILLE, Tenn (WKRN) — As Nashville’s hospitals fill up, their public schools remain empty.

That’s because all Metro Nashville Public School students are learning remotely for the rest of this semester.