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[quote=Anonymous]https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pandemic-missing-kids-didnt-back-school-96996853

[quote]To assess just how many students have gone missing, AP and Big Local News canvassed every state in the nation to find the most recently available data on both public and non-public schools, as well as census estimates for the school-age population.

Overall, public school enrollment fell by over 700,000 students between the 2019-20 and 2021-22 school years in the 21 states plus Washington, D.C., that provided the necessary data.

Those states saw private-school enrollment grow by over 100,000 students. Home-schooling grew even more, surging by more than 180,000.

But the data showed 230,000 students who were neither in private school nor registered for home-school. Their absences could not be explained by population loss, either — such as falling birth rates or families who moved out of state.[/quote]

Some of the children are probably young, delayed the start of kindergarten and just ... haven't started yet.  Some are probably high school or middle school dropouts.  At the beginning of the pandemic, everyone was concerned about the missing students.  Now?  People have moved on.  But those kids lives' have been changed, probably for the worse.  [/quote]

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