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| US students are falling behind and dropping out |
| 2021-03-04 |
| [PostMillennial] The results of a year without education are starting to come in and it has been a devastating one for America's children. A study conducted among students in San Francisco uncovered the truth that those who are most impacted by school closures are minority and low-income students. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that low-income students have fallen even further behind during the pandemic-inspired closures. The school board has instead prioritized the renaming of schools over getting schools open. They are more concerned with the appearance of racism than they are with actually making sure minority students get an education. Still another study shows that students who are English language learners are "falling behind more compared to others." "Students of color could be six to 12 months behind, compared with four to eight months for white students," it said. "While all students are suffering, those who came into the pandemic with the fewest academic opportunities are on track to exit with the greatest learning loss." More proof of "White Privilege". Meanwhile, many states are reporting that their enrollment numbers have significantly fallen during the pandemic. In New York City alone, the public school enrollment went from 1.1 million students at the beginning of the pandemic to under 950,000. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #7 What you will get eventually is anyone can sit for a proficiency test and be certified as proficient in that subject regardless of how they came by their learning. Classroom time and "institutions of learning" will be obsolete, but only those with access to good learning boot camps or an aptitude for self-teaching will advance. It will be better for them and for people who hire knowledge workers. Much worse for those left behind. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-03-04 14:31 |
| #6 In New York City alone, how much of that 150,000 drop is due to transferring to private/parochial/home schooling and how much to the families moving out of town or out of state? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-03-04 13:58 |
| #5 Well, distance learning will be one option among others. I can see neighbourhood schools making a come back. The biggest reform is the fund the kids not the system. That'll devastate the teachers' unions and public schools. Parents will be able to give them the finger now the former have serious cash to actually choose where to send Junior and Juniorette. As opposed to being forced to send them to schools that don't suit them. |
| Posted by: Lemuel Ulomosing8183 2021-03-04 13:31 |
| #4 ^ You can expect the Teachers Unions to fight efforts to curtail their salaries and pension payouts tooth and nail, just as we've seen with their resistance to opening the schools again. As they've shown in spades, they don't give a hoot about educating children. It's just a lucrative grift for them. These bolsheviks will do to public education what the United Auto Workers did to the US auto industry. Market share halved between 1975 and 1995. Same will happen over the next couple of decades to US public schools. |
| Posted by: Thor Sloluting3853 2021-03-04 10:39 |
| #3 Death spiral underway. Soon homeschooling will account for 20% of students and private & parochial schools for another 15%. The public schools' financial model isn't viable at only 65% of the population. Can't amortize all the billions they waste on regal amenities, IT, sports etc facilities or cover their bloated teaching and admin operating costs. The inevitable result: more of the horrifically bad remote instruction, which will push even more families to drop out of the public schools, which means even crappier remote public school education, and down it goes, on and on. |
| Posted by: Grolung Threrert8460 2021-03-04 10:33 |
| #2 As intended. Them darkies were getting a bit done to smart and were wondering off the plantation. Gotta keep 'em dumb. So they be pushing that race theory stuff to keep 'em dumb and angry. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2021-03-04 09:13 |
| #1 Alternative Hypothesis: Administrators and Teachers Unions have less incentive to "fake" the competency of students in order to justify their jobs. |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-03-04 09:03 |