BOSTON (AP) — Asian American families are wrestling with whether to send their children back to classrooms as high schools, middle schools and elementary schools across the country widely reopen amid rising anti-Asian harassment. Some Asian American parents say they’re content to keep their children at home attending classes online, especially with the school year rapidly winding down and COVID-19 cases on the rise in places. Others are relenting to adolescents seeking normalcy. Asian American students have the highest rates of remote learning nationally. Just 15% of Asian American fourth graders were attending classes in-person as of February, compared with more than half of white fourth graders.
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High school student Grace Hu, 16, of Sharon, Mass., stands for a photograph near Sharon High School, Sunday, April 11, 2021, in Sharon. Hu, who plans to to go back to in-person classes in April, helped organize a rally in Boston in early April against anti-Asian hate, but said she's not concerned about facing vitriol when her school reopens fully. The district, located about 27 miles south of Boston, has a sizable Asian student population and has felt generally safe and welcoming to her. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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