Public schools facing massive enrollment drop

Enrollment in public schools during the pandemic has seen a significant drop, according to the Education Department. Carter Evans takes a look at why students are vanishing from the system.

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[carolsmith]

Why don't you want your children to be shamed as racists and encouraged to change genders?

[LMNevada]

Well what did they expect? School is not safe.

[clemkidadittlehopper]

Public schools can not love your child better than there mom

[UrbanSipfly]

School administrators going door-to-door tracking down absentee kids like fugitives - OUTSTANDING!!

I am so glad that my wife and I are parents of a young man who is not romantically involved, and has no children to speak of at the moment, otherwise, life would be nightmarish for us all.

[out_running_erins]

I homeschool because the public schools are never held accountable for their bad behavior

[mistervo]

I just pulled both my kids out of school after my entire family got sick near the same day. The kids are not lost. They're at home

[FoodFreedomUSA]

Isn’t this a good thing? It means that parents are finally starting to take on the responsibility of child care & education themselves! Public schools are overrun with too many students and poor staff anyway. Private secular schools are a much better option!

[jckorn]

Our failure to contain this pandemic will have ripple effects for the rest of our lives.

[Paul_]

The workplace is changing. Depending on profession. Shouldn't the school systems change too?

[rexfordruiz]

Home schooling is the best choice. Why going back to be bullied and school system is never going to be the same like it was decades ago

[CrimsonEclipse]

Well the quality of public schools was already pretty bad to begin with before covid-19 now after the pandemic and remote learning the quality also dropped even more. So parents rather pay for better care and education.

[SummaGirl]

This is excellent. I hope the public school system disappears. When I was teaching, we spent more time indoctrinating the kids with political correctness and DNC politics than teaching them. Not surprisingly, most of my 6th graders couldn't read or write with any proficiency. They knew their gender theory, though!

[Emajjab]

Im glad i didn’t grow up in a covid mess when i was in school feel bad for these kids

[funnybunnies]

Due to the woke indoctrination in public schools we chose to put our kids in private school. It's expensive but worth it.

[WoahhTeamJacob]

“Others have vanished from the system.” That’s kinda scary

[toscatattertail]

There are online K-12 programs that are free and for many are better because the kids don't have to deal with bullies.

[Terra]

DEFUND PUBLIC EDUCATION.
DEMAND SCHOOL VOUCHERS NOW! The education dollar should follow the student.

[chrisbassg]

I wonder if they will ever come back from the "blip"

[islandbirdw]

If schools don’t shift their paradigm and make protecting kids from what will be inevitable exposure. Parents still have control of where they CHOOSE to send their kids. I know I’ve thought seriously of homeschooling my son.

[Playmaker.]

I live in Texas and ever since the pandemic started some friends of my friends haven't come to school at all. My friend (R) told me how his friend didn't show up to school except for the star tests(tests you need to pass to get to the next grade). He passed by doing summer school.