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This article is UK-centric, but something similar is happening in the US: https://fortune.com/2023/08/11/school-chronic-absence-record-rates-skyrockets-kids-sta

by gred 3y ago

This article is UK-centric, but something similar is happening in the US: https://fortune.com/2023/08/11/school-chronic-absence-record-rates-skyrockets-kids-stay-home/ https://fortune.com/2023/08/11/school-chronic-absence-record... Test results also show significant decline in the US: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-pandemic-has-had-devastating-impacts-on-learning-what-will-it-take-to-help-students-catch-up/ https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-pandemic-has-had-deva... My wife and I had just started sending our daughters to public schools when the pandemic hit (kindergarten and pre-k). We were excited about some of the special programs available in our school district. But the public schools handled the pandemic so much worse than many of the private schools, some of which stayed in-person throughout the pandemic, sending students home in clusters of just 6 to 12 when someone got sick... when nearby public school districts were closing down entire districts at a time on the strength of a single student's illness. We moved our girls to a private school that stayed in-person, and I don't think we're coming back anytime soon. We're pretty happy where we are, and I expect that public schools will need to spend significant resources managing their social and academic pandemic fallout, leaving less time for students who have not (yet) fallen behind.

Simulacra 3y ago
We were in the same boat. Our local schools looked great at the start, our kids were doing OK, but as soon as the pandemic hit, everything went into the toilet. The online learning was abysmal, leadership seem to go out of their way to antagonize parents, teachers for the most part, we're OK, but some became really condescending. We pulled all four of our kids out and put them into a homeschooling group. Now they are in private school, which we pay for, and have much more control and direction over our children's education.

by gred 3y ago

Simulacra 3y ago

We were in the same boat. Our local schools looked great at the start, our kids were doing OK, but as soon as the pandemic hit, everything went into the toilet. The online learning was abysmal, leadership seem to go out of their way to antagonize parents, teachers for the most part, we're OK, but some became really condescending. We pulled all four of our kids out and put them into a homeschooling group. Now they are in private school, which we pay for, and have much more control and direction over our children's education.