How many high school students will come back in the fall? Dismal return rate raises alarms
LOS ANGELES – Only 7% of high school students and 12% of middle school students have returned to reopened campuses in the Los Angeles school district, sounding alarms about what these figures portend for next fall and highlighting the need for intense intervention when more traditional in-person schooling resumes.
As the school year winds down with the vast majority of students at home online, an uncertain summer and fall back-to-school future is emerging: How soon will families be ready to return children to campus? Will many demand an online option? Will students attend summer school to stem learning loss?
For state Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell (D-Long Beach), the return data denote a crisis.
"It's tragic for the future of those students and tragic for the future of California," said O'Donnell, who chairs the Assembly Education Committee. "It means students are not receiving in-classroom instruction
