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Many Students Not Taking Part in Distance Learning

许多学生没有参加远程教育

As the school year ends in the United States, educators have been trying to get large numbers of students moving forward in their studies again.

随着美国学年的结束，教育工作者一直在努力让大批学生在学业上再次取得进步。

The concern is that students who were behind on their schoolwork before the COVID-19 crisis will drop back even further when classes re-start in the fall.

令人担忧的是，在新冠疫情危机前，那些在功课上落后的学生，在秋季重新开课时，功课会退步更多。

One of those educators is Tayarisha Batchelor, principal of Rowson Elementary School in Hartford, Connecticut. She recently visited students at their homes.

其中一位教育人员是塔亚里沙·巴切洛，她是康涅狄格州哈特福德市罗森小学的校长，她最近到学生们的家中探访。

Jamie-Lee is a third grader at Rowson. Batchelor held her arms outas ifshe were giving him a big hug when she visited his home. She told him how much she had missed him since the pandemic closed the school.

杰米·李是罗森小学的一名三年级学生，巴切洛到他家时伸出双臂，好像在给他一个大大的拥抱。她告诉他，疫情关闭学校以后，她有多么想念他。

The boy's eyes stayed on his smartphone as they spoke. Batchelor asked him what he was doing. Playing video games was his answer.

他们说话时，男孩的眼睛盯着他的智能手机。巴切洛询问他在做什么，他回答说玩电子游戏。

"I like playing games," Batchelor told the boy as his parents looked on. She then suggested he spend more time on his daily schoolwork. "I want tomake sureyou are still learning," she said.

“我喜欢玩游戏，”巴切洛告诉他时，他的父母都在场。然后，她建议他把更多的时间花在日常的功课上。“我想确保你还在学习，”她说。

Almost one-third of Batchelor's students have not taken part in the school's online learning program.

巴切洛近三分之一的学生没有参加学校的在线学习项目。

Batchelor said she discovered many reasons for that as she visited homes. Internet connections failed; parents were unable to supervise their children's studying; students did not know how to use technology and more.

巴切洛说，她到学生家中探访时发现了很多原因，网络连接失败；家长无法监督孩子们学习；学生不知道如何使用高科技等等。

Across the Hartford school system, almost 80 percent of students are at least partly active in distance learning. Butless thanhalf of the population considered most at risk are doing so. The at-risk group includes students with poor attendance records, behavior problems, low marks or a mix of such issues.

在整个哈特福德学校体系中，近80%的学生至少有一部分在应用远程学习中。但被认为最危险的人群中，只有不到一半的人这样做。高危人群包括出勤记录差、存在行为问题、分数低或存在多类问题的学生。

School systems across the United States have similar concerns. Some report that they have students who have not been heard from at all since the start of school closures in March.

美国各地的学校体系也有类似的担忧。有报道称，自三月份开始停课以来，有些学生一直没有任何消息。

Bret Apthorpe leads Jamestown Public Schools in New York state. He said about 75 percent of the system's students took part in distance learning every day and most of the rest took part some of the time. But, around one percent, he said, have "fallen off the map."In other words, they have not taken part at all.

布雷特·阿普索普是纽约州詹姆斯敦公立学校的负责人，他说，该校约有75%的学生每天都参加远程学习，其余大部分学生都会参加一段时间。但是，他说，大约有百分之一的人“消失了踪迹”，换句话说，他们根本没有参加。

At Clark County schools in Nevada, about 12,000 students missed online classes in mid-April. Officials took action to get these children back to their studies. Even so, about 4,500 students remained uninvolved at the end of the year. The head of the Clark County school system, Jesus Jara, said some students did not have computers and others had gotten jobs.

在内华达州的克拉克县学校，大约12000名学生在四月中旬错过了在线课程。官员们采取行动让这些孩子们重拾学业。即便如此，在年底时，仍有约4500名学生没能参与进来。克拉克县学校负责人耶酥·贾拉说，一些学生没有电脑，还有一些学生找到了工作。

Batchelor said the education effects of the widespread school closures will not be clear until educators see students' work in the fall. Nationally, research has suggested the shutdowns could cost students about a full year of learning.

巴切洛说，在教育工作者看到学生们在秋季的学习情况前，大范围关闭学校对教育产生的影响还不明朗。研究表明，在全国范围内，停课可能会让学生损失一整年的学习时间。

For now, Batchelor said, parents and educators are doing their best, adding, "they might be having a difficult time doing it, but parents want their students to succeed, and they want to work with us."

巴切洛说，目前，家长和教育工作者正在尽最大努力，他补充说：“他们可能在这方面遇到困难，但家长希望他们的学生取得成功，他们希望与我们合作。”

I'm John Russell.

约翰·拉塞尔报道。

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