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Michael Berry

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Over The Last Year, Thousands Of Students Missing From Virtual Learning

The cost of the lockdowns and particularly the shutting of schools will without a doubt cast a long shadow on this generation children.

Over the last year, school districts across the country are reporting that thousands of students have not showed up for online or in-person instruction.

Education officials admit that it is difficult to truly determine the exact magnitude of the problem.

One study by Bellwether Education Partners, a non-profit education group, estimates that approximately 3 million may been missing from school since March of last year.

ABC News reports:

“In Michigan, K-12 enrollment decreased this fall by some 53,000 students out of about 1.5 million students. In a December op-ed, state Superintendent Michael Rice said much of the drop was due to factors such as an annual decline in enrollment for the past 10 years, parents opting to hold their children back from kindergarten and an increase in the number of home-schooled students, ultimately accounting for approximately 40,000 of those students…
In Dallas, Texas, which was home to approximately 153,000 students last year, there are about 9,000 high-schoolers, 2,000 middle-schoolers, and 1,000 elementary school students unaccounted for, Robyn Harris, a representative from the Dallas Independent School District, told ABC News. 
And in Florida, officials are trying to determine the whereabouts of nearly 88,000 students who were expected for the 2020-'21 academic year and failed to show up in the fall. Last year, state enrollment topped 2.8 million, but that number has since dipped to 2.7 million. In a Feb. 11 letter to school district leaders, Florida House Speaker Chris Sprowls called this drop "alarming,” stating that the number represents over 3% of the state’s total student population. Posting his letter on Twitter, Sprowls urged districts to use every available resource “to locate these missing children. We have a moral obligation not to allow any of these children to slip through the cracks of the system.” 
Miami-Dade County, which is home to the nation's fourth largest school system, with nearly 335,000 students, the district opened this year with over 10,000 fewer students than in 2019, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho told ABC News…
Nationwide, in many public school districts, kindergarten enrollment is down. Although kindergarten is not a requirement in any of the following states, Minneapolis saw a 16% decline, Los Angeles had a 14% drop, and Colorado experience a 9% decline in their yearly kindergarten enrollment.” 

As The Czar pointed out on the show today:

Closing the schools was a grave error. The children will suffer, many of them will suffer for a very long time...It will go from being a temporary inconvenience to parents and temporary disruption to children to being a long-term problem for many of those children...A kid that’s in 7th grade and already can’t read to fall a further year behind, because what’s going on at their home is not going on in yours. “

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