From mentorship to Nintendo Switch raffles, Bridgeport schools see drop in chronic absenteeism
From mentorship to Nintendo Switch raffles, Bridgeport schools see drop in chronic absenteeism FacebookTwitterEmail Desks are in place at a safe social distance in a classroom of Johnson School, in Bridgeport, Conn. Aug. 27, 2020.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media BRIDGEPORT — At the Geraldine W. Johnson School in Bridgeport, about a third of the students were repeatedly not showing up for class. It was a trend seen district-wide — with some schools seeing chronic absenteeism rates upward of 50 percent — as the pandemic shifted learning online and took kids out of the classroom. The ...