What Is the Problem With San Francisco Schools?

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The school year had just started, ninth grade in a new high school. And their fraternal twins were very different. One was ok with e distance learning, on line school. The other one was a disaster,. much like what shea said about his son. Mine was not depressed, but he was just a playing video games 15 hours a day every day for lik tn months. Ye i benharend asking them to help with sars and instead they decided to rename the schools.

Flo Read meets Siva, Autumn, and Ann.

Public schools in San Francisco sent their students home for 18 months during the COVID pandemic, the longest school closure in the country. While children were falling behind at home, the city’s elected school board was tasked with handling the re-opening. But, it seemed, they were too busy trying to pander to progressive demands to get children back in the classroom. A group of parents, angry with the extended shutdown and dithering meetings, launched a campaign to recall three members of the school board. Last week, they won. Florence Read sat down with three parents involved in the recall, Autumn, Siva and Ann, to discuss why COVID has been such a disaster for San Francisco's schools.

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