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San Jose Unified sees fewer older students return to classrooms KTVU s Maureen Naylor reports. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Students returning to the classroom are finding themselves with a lot fewer classmates around. New numbers from the South Bay s largest school district show the vast majority of older students chose to remain at home. In fact, only one in five high school students in the San Jose Unified School District opted to come back for in-person classes. At Willow Glen Middle School in San Jose, about one third of students chose to return to campus when in-person instruction started Wednesday. On a fully enrolled year, we re right at 1300 students. Right now for in-person instruction, we re enrolled at about 460, said principal Paul Slayton. ....
Fewer Kindergartners Could Signal Big Educational, Financial Troubles For Sacramento City Schools Listen Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Ann Crisp and her 5 year-old son Lennon outside their home in Sacramento. Ann decided to keep her son in a private preschool instead of enrolling him in a distance-learning kindergarten class within the Sacramento City Unified School District. Pauline Bartolone / CapRadio Ann Crisp says her family tried doing “Zoom-school” for their 5-year-old son Lennon earlier this year, but it just didn’t work. She works at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic, so she set her son up in front of a computer next to her desk to make sure he paid attention during class. But her son has minor speech and motor skill delays, and it was frustrating for him to sit through three 45-minute online sessions, she says. ....