Posted on 02/10/2023 4:30:36 AM PST by EBH
Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?
https://apnews.com/article/covid-school-enrollment-missing-kids-homeschool-b6c9017f603c00466b9e9908c5f2183a?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_05&utm_content=eyebrows
An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 230,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for. These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data.
In short, they’re missing.
As with “ghost soldiers” in a corrupt third-world army, I wonder how many of them ever actually existed.
Parents are either pulling their children out of the GICs (government indoctrination camps) or not signing them up to go at all. Instead they are choosing for them homeschooling, parochial schools, or private ones.
They’re walking away from being Socialized. May the Walk Away Movement continue in earnest.
No sane parent would send their kids to these hellscapes
Did they account for inter-state relocation? Send the children to live with grandparents or aunt/uncle who is in a state where the schools did not close or where they could go to a low-cost private school that did not close.
For such a lengthy article, it was surprisingly limited in it’s scope.
What you just described was apparently not even considered as a likely factor in the reduced enrollment.
The article was about 3X longer than it had to be and tended to repeat its own message a couple of times.
This could be awesome — if it’s an indication that large numbers of parents no longer want the government to have anything to do with their kids.
they are not registering them for homeschooling either
Hard to believe, these goobers CAN’T FIGURE OUT WHAT IS HAPPENING.
Boy, I’m sad that I couldn’t get to Harvard so I could ponder what the problem is here.
Yes, they are saying these kids are not accounted for anywhere in system.
Depends on the where they live. Some states require parents to declare in writing that their children are being homeschooled.
Many parents had the opportunity to really see what was being passed off as education during the pandemic.
Just like the missing workers...who chose to not return to work. Many families adjusted themselves to be one income homes and dedicated to raising their kids.
Vouchers. Reward performance. Let nepotism and communism wither
If we can see that...why can’t the “EXPERTS” SEE IT.
There are none so blind as those who WILL NOT see.
Regards, EBH.
Yep, our kids technically dropped off the map 10+ years ago. We wrote the dept of EDU in FL that we were homeschooling and then moved to MO a year later and continued to homeschool and MO doesn’t require notification so as far as MO is concerned, our kids didn’t exist.
Hm?....A question I hadn’t considered. Good point!
Bump for later!!!!
Perhaps they are forming neighborhood learning pods.
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