Thousands of students have dropped out of school due to Covid-19. These are the educators trying to track them down

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Fewer resources and the persistent digital divide mean students may miss school simply because they can't get online. The economic impact of the pandemic means some older students may have had to take a job to make up for one lost by a family member.

The second thing to know is that the pandemic has made falling behind much easier to do.The dropout rate in the United States was on a steady decline in the years before the pandemic. According to the US Department of Education, the dropout rate for high school students fell from about 10% in 2006 to about 5% in 2018.

Enrollment is down across the board," said Jessica Irving-Marin, who helps high school students who can't or won't go to traditional school pass the equivalent of the GED administered in Louisiana."Students that were thriving before the pandemic are struggling right now."As the pandemic exacerbates social inequalities, a dropout crisis among high school students becomes ever more real.

 

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This remote learning nonsense has wasted an entire year of education for kids in public schools.

A lot of districts sent out school busses with wifi to help rural students who had no way to get their Google Chrome books online during the early months of the pandemic. We still had problems with kids at home alone while parents had to work. Kids don’t always stay on task.

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So then why are online college degrees exploding?

Crazy idea, open the schools back up

They're wise, school's are nothing but brainwashing conforming institutions created tomoutput slaves for corrupt governments, mass corporations and religious belief theories

It's true, even some students from notably wealthy household lost their motivation to learn from online school and never show up on class.

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