SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Colton Holian`s dog didn`t eat his homework, the Wi-Fi did. “Half of my assignments go but the other half don`t,” says Holian, 13, who has been virtually attending Navajo Nation`s Tohatchi Middle School for the past month. Holian loves school, especially math, and was getting As and Bs last year. Now his teachers tell his grandmother that he`s getting Cs and Ds. He`s at risk of failing physical education which, like all of his classes, is taught online. “Right now I know my grandson ain`t learning nothing,” says grandmother Andrea Thomas, a data extractor at a medical facility. Thomas has to commute because the internet at her and Holian`s home is not reliable enough...
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