By Selwyn Duke

They used to be report cards — now they’re distort cards. As a consequence, says education expert Cindi Williams, parents are oblivious to how their kids are failing in school.

And failing they are. In a Friday article, Williams laments how focus groups have shown that even in districts where student performance is rock bottom, parents believe their kids are succeeding academically. The result is that even though states and localities spend billions in Covid relief dollars to provide extra instructional programs for failing students, they’re not often utilized because dad and mom never get an accurate diagnosis.

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