Students in North Carolina are struggling with math and science, and this is being reflected in their grades. School has been hard for students this past year, and there have been students who are struggling. Every child learns differently and some do not thrive with remote learning. They struggle to connect and understand what they are doing without the physical body of a teacher in the room explaining it to them. They may not get enough one-on-one attention they need to thrive in school.
According to Fox News, high school students in North Carolina are not doing so well in math and science and it is being reflected in their grades. This was shown in the end-of-course exams that were done, and the decline was obvious.
The majority of high schoolers failed Math 1, Math 3 and Biology exams, and this comes after seeing declines from the fall of 2019. According to Insider, they are not alone. They showed that students all across the US have been failing at higher levels than normal due to the pandemic. While students have been doing poorly, there seems to be a growing trend when it comes to math. Even elementary students took a 5 to 10% drop in points in math, though their levels of reading remained the same.
Teachers are also struggling on how to help the students, especially when they are either doing remote learning, or are just not in school. There has also been some talk on if grade should just be cancelled for the school years affected by the pandemic, that it may not be “fair” to grade students on an unprecedented year that has brought on so many changes to their education. With a year that has brought struggles, children are being exhausted mentally that they are unable to focus on school as they did in previous years.
Joe Feldman is the CEO of an education consulting group, and he said that this pandemic has shown that the traditional grading practices may not work anymore, and that “F” grades have been proven to be given out more to students who may not have the resources other students do. This also highlights the importance of in-person school, and how focused everyone should be on getting them back open by following the local public health guidelines and getting the pandemic under control. This seems to be the clear answer to getting children back in their schools and back to getting the grades that they are used to getting.