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For: Real America News
Half. The attendance in classrooms
from different parts of the United States is has been reduced by the effects of covid-19. In particular, of the Omicron variant, which you have shown to the country and the world its surprising speed of spread.
According to The Associated Press, teachers in the country see little attendance in their classrooms and, even so, they must teach classes.
The absent students are at home, either because they have recently been exposed to someone sick of covid-19, or even because their families try to avoid contagion .
But absences are a serious matter. They show how the difficulties are deepening for students to continue pending and advancing in their studies, in another school year that the pandemic has marked.
Eric Adams, Mayor of the City of New York – birthplace of the district largest school in the country—revoked this week a commitment it had to keep children in the classroom. In addition, he said that he would analyze the possibility of a return to virtual teaching.
Tabatha Rosproy, a teacher from Kansas and recognized in the country as a Teacher of the Year in 2020, no doubt. “This is really affecting learning. If one day you have three children in your class and you are supposed to have 12, you have to go back to teaching everything two weeks later, when those kids come back.”
Among the largest school systems in the United States , absenteeism rates of 24% or slightly more are reported, but there are campuses with the highest rates of absent students.
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