{"id":12685,"date":"2024-01-19T17:54:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T17:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12685"},"modified":"2024-01-19T17:54:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T17:54:03","slug":"millions-of-kids-left-classrooms-during-the-pandemic-new-data-show-50000-hadnt-returned-2-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12685","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Kids Left Classrooms During the Pandemic. New Data Show 50,000 Hadn’t Returned 2 Years Later."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“According to a new analysis<\/a> from the Associated Press, 50,000 children were still estimated to be “missing” from American classrooms in fall 2022\u2014two years after the COVID-19 pandemic caused school enrollment numbers to plummet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the number actually indicates an improvement in school attendance\u2014the A.P. found that an estimated 230,000 children were missing in fall 2021\u2014it also shows that thousands of children have nonetheless experienced multiyear disruptions to their educations following COVID-era school closures.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“According to the A.P., while exact causes are difficult to pinpoint, bureaucratic hurdles could be a major factor holding children back from returning to the classroom. Many school districts have stringent policies of unenrolling children after long absences, while others require onerous paperwork proving a child’s residency within the district or complicated medical requirements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Atlanta, for example, parents must provide eight separate documents<\/a> to enroll their children in public schools, including a “complicated certificate evaluating a child’s dental health, vision, hearing and nutrition,” according to the A.P. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One mother of a seventh-grader with autism told the A.P. that she tried to enroll her son in their local public school as soon as the pandemic closures ended. However, she didn’t have reliable transportation and said she couldn’t find a nearby appointment to get him the required immunizations, causing her son to miss five months of school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He wasn’t in school, and no one cared,” she told the A.P.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Millions of Kids Left Classrooms During the Pandemic. New Data Show 50,000 Hadn’t Returned 2 Years Later.<\/a><\/blockquote>