Seventy percent of students in the Lee Home Connect program are not meeting standards, so the Lee County School District is pushing for those students to go back to in-person learning to get their grades up. 

The district is calling all families of students in the program to encourage them to go back to brick-and-mortar classrooms at the start of 2021 for traditional face-to-face instruction, where they are more likely to be successful. 

That’s 16,000 students who have been flagged for not getting good enough grades or being absent for more than seven days. Parents can opt out of allowing their kids to return to the in-person classroom by signing a waiver. 

The deadline for parents of students in Lee County schools to change learning options is Dec. 13 for the next semester.