After 2 Years Of COVID Shutdowns, Schools Resort To Bribing Students To Come Back
It appears that two years off from attending school thanks to the pandemic has changed the attitude about attending school now that most lockdowns in the U.S. have ended. In short, less students want to go.
So schools have turned to “trying to beg them back with gift cards, pep rallies, and insect-eating stunts”, according to a new article from Not The Bee, citing a report about “chronic absence” in schools by the New York Times.
“Chronic absence has skyrocketed” during the pandemic, said Hedy Chang, the director of Attendance Works, a national group that promotes solutions to chronic absenteeism, which been linked to weaker academic performance and can predict whether a student is more likely to drop out before finishing high school.
One high school freshman told the New York Times: “Kids aren’t showing up as much as they used to.” She says some of them have taken on jobs during the day, others have fallen out of the habit of coming to school, and “some of them get Covid”.- READ MORE
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