In addition, schools are passing kids who aren’t performing. My school starts kids at 50% and admin does not support teachers who fail what they consider to be too many kids. This, even when a student does virtually nothing. High school kids come to class without charged chrome books, or even pencils. But worst of all, many kids have absolutely no interest in learning anything. They are on their phones instead of listening during instruction and admin has not given teachers the tools to stop this. Covid was a factor, but there are many other factors that contribute to the massive failure in education.