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Education

BigmanPigman

(51,568 posts) Sat Mar 21, 2020, 03:08 AM Mar 2020

If schools are closed until Sept what grade will kids be in when they return? [View all]

I heard CA state say that they can't pretend that the lost time is OK and go on from there. How will students make up for what they missed? Ditsy DeVos has no answers, of course.

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If schools are closed until Sept what grade will kids be in when they return? [View all] BigmanPigman Mar 2020 OP

13 and a half. greyl Mar 2020 #1

(I)ncomplete? nt mr_lebowski Mar 2020 #2

I can't imagine they are going to make a bunch of students repeat. jimfields33 Mar 2020 #3

The next one. Pass 'em all. apcalc Mar 2020 #4

The classes on-line and on PBS BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #5

Well that's sad samplegirl Mar 2020 #6

I can remember using up all our snow days and making them up on Saturday half days. We GreenPartyVoter Mar 2020 #9

I taught at a year round school and we went until July 20th. BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #13

We may have a generation that lags behind benchmarks throughout school. We were GreenPartyVoter Mar 2020 #7

my grand dtr graduates this june..no online classes are in place for them.. samnsara Mar 2020 #8

Do you know if she will in fact graduate? brer cat Mar 2020 #11

Michigan Department of education gibraltar72 Mar 2020 #10

Devos will properly have no answers. Igel Mar 2020 #12