CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A southwest suburban high school said the number of students making the honor roll went up in the first semester, despite a combination of remote and hybrid learning.
Officials at Lemont High School said 991 students made the honor roll in the first semester of the academic year. Lemont High was all remote in the first month of the school year, and hybrid learning with some in-person instruction after that.
The number of students making the honor roll is higher than in the first semester of the 2019-2020 school year, when 960 students made the honor roll.
Principal Eric Michaelsen credits the good relationship between students and their teachers.
"They like school and they like their teachers. That kind of relationships cannot be overstated, because it makes them work really well with each other," Michaelsen said.
Michaelsen added that teachers spent the summer undergoing training for a year of remote and hybrid learning.
"It was like being a first year teacher all over again with all of the extra work and time that went into it," Michaelsen said.
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Michaelsen said the honor roll had a social and emotional component as well. Students are looking for signs of normalcy in a pandemic-tossed world, he said, and the honor roll is just one sliver of the way things used to be.