If parents could grade Twin Cities public schools on their COVID-era teaching plans for kindergartners this fall, it’s safe to say teachers and administrators would recieve low marks indeed. The number of children whose parents have opted out of sending them to public schools has snowballed, reflecting widespread dissatisfaction in school districts’ insistence on distance learning, even for the very youngest students.
The seismic shift caught the attention of the Star Tribune.
Kindergarten enrollment has plunged across the Twin Cities metro, as families have sought alternatives to a first year of school spent at least partly in front of a computer screen...
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