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Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Yahoo
'A miracle': 2-year-old recovering after falling from 15th floor apartment balcony
SILVER SPRING, Md. - It's the story making headlines around the world — a two-year-old survived a 15-story fall in Montgomery County. It happened at a high-rise apartment community in Silver Spring. FOX 5 went to The Enclave apartment complex in Silver Spring and visited a family on the 15th floor — the same floor the child fell from to get a perspective of the fall the 2-year-old had taken. "Just look over there. I don't know if he landed on the bushes. I don't know. He landed on the bushes. That's a miracle. A miracle man," said Mohamed Koroma, who allowed FOX 5 into his home. "It's really sad." These are the bushes that apparently broke the little boy's fall. they're not much. The authorities say the boy was on the 15th floor. It's a 20-story building and around 2 p.m. on Thursday, the boy fell from the balcony. We're told he suffered a broken leg and multiple internal injuries but nothing life-threatening. Adults were at home at the time but police say they're still investigating how the boy got over the protective glass that surrounds the balconies there. "They must have some chairs here. The kid might've climbed over because there's no way. There must be some equipment right on the floor that the kid used to flip over," Koroma said. Another neighbor who lives on the fifth floor of the building, says the toddler should never have been outside unsupervised. "I feel like the children shouldn't be on the balcony, especially unattended because why are they outside? I have four children and they are not allowed on the balcony and we live on the fifth floor. So the 15th floor? That's crazy to me," mom Ty Powers said. "It's definitely a tragedy but people have got to watch their children. The baby should not have been outside on the balcony." We're all wondering how it is possible to survive a fall of that distance. FOX 5 reached out to Children's National Hospital to ask that of a physician, who doesn't know this case but does know the laws of physics. "I want to stress first that this is really miraculous," said Dr. Katie Donnelly, a pediatric emergency medicine doctor with Children's National. "Falls from this height are usually pretty devas Montgomery County police say there are no charges being filed against the parents or guardians of the boy who fell at this time.
CBS News
12-02-2025
- General
- CBS News
How one school is making changes to combat pandemic losses in math and reading
National test results released last month show that not a single state scored above pre-pandemic levels in both math and reading, despite nearly $190 billion given to schools in federal pandemic relief funds. At Kramer Middle School in Washington, D.C., eighth grader Aiyden Wiggins told CBS News he struggled with math after coming back to full-time in-person learning. He and his classmates spent about 1.5 years in remote learning through the pandemic. Mohamed Koroma, an eighth grade English Language Arts teacher, said, "We're still trying to fill in those gaps that they didn't get at the lower levels. Because it's hard to grapple with the eighth grade text if you are on a lower reading level." A study released Tuesday from Harvard, Stanford and Dartmouth also cites a widespread rise in absenteeism, especially in high-poverty districts. "The biggest thing is to just get them inside the building," Koroma said. "Once we get them in the building, learning is gonna happen." District of Colombia Public Schools chronic absenteeism was at 37% for the 2023-2024 school year, down from 41% the previous school year. But the new study found some bright spots: Despite the overall nationwide drop, more than 100 local school districts are performing better than they were before the pandemic in math and reading. Public schools in Washington, D.C., aren't there yet, but over the last two years, the nation's capital ranked first in the country in terms of recovery in math and reading — a marked improvement considering it ranks 32nd in math recovery from 2019-2024, and fifth in reading over that same time period. Kramer Middle School Principal Katreena Shelby said the turnaround at her school came when she "started thinking maybe I need to think about this differently." "How can we make classroom sizes smaller, but give kids more opportunities to get remediation during the school day?" she said. One of the solutions was what's known as high-impact tutoring, where tutors are brought in to help students in the classroom during school hours. It's a program that's been successful in other districts as well. Washington also invested some of its pandemic funds in more teachers, giving $1,000 stipends to some who completed literacy training courses. "Giving kids that additional support in literacy and math didn't just impact how we were able to grow literacy skills, we also were able to reduce truancy by 20% in one year," Shelby said, adding that seeing their own progress, "was encouraging them."
