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Scores of students are getting F's: What's the point of failing them during COVID-19? Alia Wong, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT It wasn’t until several weeks ago that Christopher Lamar discovered he was failing most of his classes. Lamar, an 18-year-old senior at Lake Nona High School in Orlando, Florida, had always enjoyed being a student. He ran for homecoming; he started a spirit club. Things changed once classes went online this year. Lamar had to watch and cook for his siblings, to clean and manage the household. School fell to the bottom of his priority list.  When L...

Table of Contents Quarantines Leave Schools Scrambling for Substitute Teachers A Hanover College student works as a substitute teacher at a school in Greenfield, Indiana. Several states have relaxed qualification requirements for substitute teachers during the pandemic. Michael Conroy The Associated Press Josephine Brewington has been a substitute teacher in suburban Beech Grove, Indiana, for a decade, but her job has grown in importance as her school district scrambles to supervise pupils whose teachers are sick, quarantining or caring for others. “We’d have teac...