“It just means we’ve got a long road ahead of us … to get kids to get back to grade level,” said Rachel Hansen, director of the center’s survey project.
And how do you plan on doing that? Getting rid of all the subjective stuff to spend more time on the basics? Firing incompetent teachers and administrators, especially the ones who kept advocating the lockdowns? Keeping kids back a year if they bomb everything? Advocating for political positions to improve schools beyond "gimme more money"?
Oh, none of the above? Then you're not fixing anything. Unless you have a student with a large amount of personal motivation to put in the extra time to do the makeup work, you're not going to make up for a year (in some cases, two years) worth of missed class time. Especially in an educational system which is barely scraping many of the students by as-is.
And how do you plan on doing that? Getting rid of all the subjective stuff to spend more time on the basics? Firing incompetent teachers and administrators, especially the ones who kept advocating the lockdowns? Keeping kids back a year if they bomb everything? Advocating for political positions to improve schools beyond "gimme more money"?
Oh, none of the above? Then you're not fixing anything. Unless you have a student with a large amount of personal motivation to put in the extra time to do the makeup work, you're not going to make up for a year (in some cases, two years) worth of missed class time. Especially in an educational system which is barely scraping many of the students by as-is.