WASHINGTON — Gina Garro didn’t even get to tell her students goodbye.
Like many schools rushing to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Garfield Elementary in Revere abruptly shut its doors late one afternoon, with little plan for how teachers would continue their lessons online. As two weeks turned into three, Garro, who co-teaches special education classes, attempted to video chat with her kindergartners and first-graders. But she worried not all of their parents had computers or knew how to use the Internet.
She was right. Out of her 24 students, only eight to 10 have ever logged on.
“The fear is that those kids are moving along, have the support to move along, and those kids who we can’t really reach are going to fall further behind,” she said.
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