Superintendent Brumley: This summer the “most important academic summer we have seen”

Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley

Louisiana K-12 schools are preparing to educate over 200,000 students for summer school after a year where most students spent a lot of time out of the classroom and in front of screens.

Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley said they managed to have 70% of students back in the classroom by the end of the recent spring semester, but many still need help before the fall starts.

“This will be, in my opinion, the most important academic summer that we have seen in the state as far as I know,” said Brumley.

Brumley said to incentivize more summer school attendance they’ve encouraged school systems to use federal funds to create more of a summer camp, and not summer school experience.

“We need to create a camp feel where kids can have art, and music, and P.E., and recess and let them have those fun experiences and then pull them in in smaller groups to look at math, and science, and social studies,” said Brumley.

Brumley said if your child is not attending summer school then you need to engage them with some kind of continuing education noting research shows without some form of programming students lose as much as 30% of their learning over the summer months.