MacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Parents Discover 28% Of Kids Are Failing, School Board "Blindsided"

Thanks to the hard work of a group of parents from the School District of Waukesha, shocking statistics were discovered around students’ performance in schools with virtual education.

Jan. 27, 2021

Rebecca, Stacy, and Kelly are three mothers concerned with the quality of education their children have been receiving throughout the 2020-2021 school year. After placing pressure on the school administration to release student performance data to them, they took the shocking information to the school board who were surprised by the very high levels of students failing a class. MacIver’s Abbi Debelack talks to the three mothers from the Waukesha School District about the impact virtual learning has had on their children, their frustrations with the strict quarantine guidelines, and how the school administration has sidelined their concerns.

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