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The report notes that 320 million children in India have not stepped into a classroom for more than a year and have lost one-tenth of their entire schooling already.
>> seeing my friends. >> sometimes we used to beg mom toe take us back to the regular school. [ laughter ] >> so today's a good day all around. >> yes. yes, for everybody. for everybody. >> so the school district normally enrolls about 2500 students in their summer school program. this year they have enrolled 13,000 students in this program. that is close half of the entire student body for montgomery public schools. the superintendent here told us that the pause e the chaos and the virtual, the back end person and the fears parents and students had in school if they were doing some sort of hy...
In teachers just here in michigan we've seen teachers resigning here at 40% since august. >> what's it been like for the kids that went back into the classroom at detroit public schools? >> reporter: the operative word is the kids who did come back. the superintendent said for now they're seeing a lot of teachers, and frankly, students as well who just aren't coming back. i said, what do you do about that? he says they're just exhausted. a lot of these children have parents who are maybe front line workers who struggled all year long with virtual learning and who aren't coming back, even for t...