HOOKY EPIDEMIC: School’s Out For… Ever in NYC
No readin’, no writin’, no ‘rithmatic for the hooky-loving students of New York City’s public schools.
A whopping 40% of the city’s 938,000 students are suffering, not from COVID, but from “chronic absenteeism,” according to figures seen by the New York Post.
That’s about 375,000 school-age kids who are “missing too much school and falling too far behind.” ie, playing hooky.
The current rate is up from 26% in the years before COVID, which wasn’t exactly anything to crow about.
However, the Post says that 40% might actually be an undercount. Students with COVID or under quarantine may be marked as “present” — I’m sure there’s a bureaucratic justification for that — or if they “logged in online or had minimal contact with a teacher.” – READ MORE
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