‘Not widgets’: Fremont’s Ward weighs in on school ranking system

Fremont Elementary School’s educators live by a motto that they find a way, not an excuse, when it comes to helping every student, Principal Jennifer Ward says. “That, sometimes, is really hard because we can say, with COVID, 80% of our school year was messed up the following year; where they were coming every other day, or when we did get them back, they were only coming four days a week, but they wore masks,” she said. “The reality is that we didn’t fare well in relation to other schools, either.”