“Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Learning, an education advocacy group, said the city’s Covid policies treated in-person education as “non-essential.”
“Schools did not fully open for 18 months,” the group said in a statement to the Chronicle. “Pre-COVID, attendance was used as one admissions criterion for academically rigorous programs, so parents were particularly mindful about their child’s absences. The decision to scrap that policy post-pandemic further devalued school attendance. This rising problem won’t be easy to combat when we are hearing that some high schools are pushing virtual classes as a way to comply with the small class size mandate.”
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