At-risk students go through a few weeks of intense remediation

By Kristy Deer
Staff Writer
First Posted: June 27, 2012 - 9:09 pm
Last Updated: June 27, 2012 - 9:27 pm

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Second chances: Sugar Creek Elementary resource teacher Christina Huseman goes over reading assignments from Southern Hancock School District students that she worked with this summer as she prepared them to retake the IRead-3 test today.

NEW PALESTINE — Fifteen days is not a long time.

Particularly when that’s the number of teaching opportunities educators have had this summer to prepare students to retake the IREAD-3 test.

“This has been an excellent opportunity to help those kids who need to get that remediation,” said Christina Huseman, a resource teacher at Sugar Creek Elementary School. She and other teachers countywide have been hunkering down with 63 third-grade students who failed the exam in March, preparing them for do-overs that are supposed to be completed by today.

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