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As the last remaining active COVID thread, I am posting this here. It's something we have discussed for the past couple of years. Now we have some "after" data. The commentary is from Nellie Bowles of the Free Press. The original article link immediately follows the graph. In the source article, it states that "losses concentrated among the youngest students." A related post (see bottom of article on last link) indicates Catholic schools lost children at the same rate as public schools. The thing that I didn't realize until reading the last link below (apnews), is that 230,000 school-age children are unaccounted for. They didn't sign up for private school, they didn't sign up for home school, and they didn't move out of state.
→ Parents are still fleeing public schools: Some 1.2 million students have left the K-12 public school system, according to a new investigation from the Associated Press and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee. Also: Private school enrollment rose by 4 percent in the 2021-2022 school years, and homeschool enrollment was 30 percent higher.
California public schools alone have around 150,000 missing students. And who can blame these parents? The public school admins bullied parents into thinking in-person schooling was some special luxury their children didn’t deserve. “I am not a childcare provider” became the pro-lockdown mantra, even though of course teachers are just that. Don’t get me started on masking kindergartners.
And so parents pulled their kids out of these schools. But the big shock is the kids aren’t coming back. As the study ominously puts it: “The sharp and sustained growth in homeschooling and private school enrollment raises new questions about the quality of the learning environments children are experiencing.” Those children might be . . . it’s too horrible to say, but . . . learning to read somewhere.
apnews.com
→ Parents are still fleeing public schools: Some 1.2 million students have left the K-12 public school system, according to a new investigation from the Associated Press and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee. Also: Private school enrollment rose by 4 percent in the 2021-2022 school years, and homeschool enrollment was 30 percent higher.
California public schools alone have around 150,000 missing students. And who can blame these parents? The public school admins bullied parents into thinking in-person schooling was some special luxury their children didn’t deserve. “I am not a childcare provider” became the pro-lockdown mantra, even though of course teachers are just that. Don’t get me started on masking kindergartners.
And so parents pulled their kids out of these schools. But the big shock is the kids aren’t coming back. As the study ominously puts it: “The sharp and sustained growth in homeschooling and private school enrollment raises new questions about the quality of the learning environments children are experiencing.” Those children might be . . . it’s too horrible to say, but . . . learning to read somewhere.
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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?
Over a million kids left public schools during COVID. Hundreds of thousands of them didn’t start private school or homeschool. They’re missing.
