NYC has yet to release attendance data, but schools say many kids aren’t showing up
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Art teacher Jake Jacobs feels more like a detective most mornings.
As his co-teacher kicks off the day’s remote lesson with the students who have managed to log on, Jacobs tries tracking down those who are missing. He works through a growing list of phone numbers he has collected from parents and grandparents, aunties, and even older siblings who have already graduated from the northeast Bronx middle school where Jacobs works.