COVID is canceling in-person classes again. Will missing more school hurt vulnerable kids?
DATE: November 29, 2021
In schools across Michigan, the reasons for closures vary, but there are overarching themes. Increasing COVID-19 rates are closing schools. Staff shortages are closing schools. Staff burnout is closing schools. A slate of districts, including Detroit and Ann Arbor Public Schools, closed for the entire week of Thanksgiving, instead of just a few days like in typical years, citing, in part, the need to ease mental stress on educators.
All of those reasons are real and complicated, but come with repercussions for students and families, especially vulnerable students in low-income communities and students with disabilities who have already missed out on education guaranteed to them by the federal government.
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