[EBH]

The data reveal that two of the primary explanations for the public school pandemic exodus are an increase in homeschooling and a decrease in the school-age population. But these two trends cannot explain the entire enrollment drop. The large amount of public school enrollment loss that, in many states, cannot be explained by changes in nonpublic enrollment and demographics suggests the possibility of other developmentally relevant behaviors ...

[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.

[Tom Tetroxide]

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.

[mason-dixon]

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.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile...

Connecticut Lawmakers Move To Block Parents From Seeing Teacher-Student Communications

[Alberta's Child]

… suggests the possibility of other developmentally relevant behaviors (e.g., kindergarten skipping, unregistered homeschooling, and truancy) that merit further research.

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.

[Maris Crane]

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.

[4Liberty]

Bump for later!!!!

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, speaking of publik skrewls and kids...

It's Official: CDC Adds Three-Dose COVID Jab To Childhood Vax List

[ridesthemiles]

The coming enrollment drop due to high incidence of miscarriages & deaths from Covid shots will come very soon.