Hundreds of Sacramento Kids Stopped Schooling Due To COVID-19
More than 500 Sacramento kids have lost touch with the Sacramento City Unified School District since schools closed their doors in mid-March to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The number of kids who hadn’t started the distance-learning process was initially higher — 1,636 students — but school district employees have whittled the number of kids down by calling, texting and emailing families over the past few weeks.
Now, school officials are trying to reconnect with the kids who are hardest to reach, by visiting children’s homes one-by-one.
"We’re getting down to our truly, truly, unreachable, no-contact students," said Jennifer Kretschman with the Sacramento City Unified School District, who is heading up efforts to find the kids and help them log into their online classrooms.
Kretschman says initially, the district may have lost touch with students because they had outdated contact information for families. Some kids didn’t start distance-learning right away because they didn’t have a laptop, or had trouble logging into classes. But other families are lost in the shuffle because of tough life changes.
"A lot of families were displaced and had to move or go stay with relatives just because of job loss and all the other things that were happening," Kretschman said.
Last Wednesday, Kretschman and Ethel Baker elementary school Principal Nate McGill CONTINUE READING: Hundreds of Sacramento Kids Stopped Schooling Due To COVID-19 - capradio.org
