{"id":142538,"date":"2020-12-27T23:19:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T20:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/amid-the-pandemic-exodus-from-americas-public-schools\/"},"modified":"2020-12-27T23:19:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T20:19:19","slug":"amid-the-pandemic-exodus-from-americas-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amid-the-pandemic-exodus-from-americas-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"#Amid the pandemic, exodus from America\u2019s public schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Amid the pandemic, exodus from America\u2019s public schools<\/strong>”
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Families are fleeing public schools across America \u2014 because those schools, especially union-dominated ones, have failed children so horribly in the face of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Data collected from 33 states by Chalkbeat and The Associated Press<\/a> shows that K-12 enrollment in public schools has dropped by over half a million students, or 2 percent, since the same time last year. This, when the same states have typically seen yearly enrollment growth of 0.5 percent.<\/p>\n

Parents are plainly furious at systems that keep schools closed altogether, and at remote-\u201clearning\u201d efforts that just don\u2019t work. So they\u2019re shifting to Catholic and private schools that are giving in-person classes, to public charters that manage to make remote learning work and to home-schooling.<\/p>\n

An Education Week survey reports<\/a> that the federal yearly average percentage of students homeschooling is a little over 3 percent. But this year, that number trip<\/a>led to 10 percent.<\/p>\n

In New York City, Catholic schools, which mostly offer in-person classes and tuition more affordable than other private schools, are seeing a sharp spike in app<\/a>lications and absorbing over 1,000 students who attended public school last year. Charter schools would likely see a similar boom \u2014 if state law hadn\u2019t capped their numbers.<\/p>\n

Teacher unions insist it\u2019s inhumane to send staff into schools during a pandemic, even though the science<\/a> says otherwise. And sclerotic administration and union rules also seem to prevent the kind of true innovation and flexibility that can make online classes work. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Mayor Bill de Blasio did better than many other urban leaders (and the entire state of California), re-opening schools in October \u2014 but it\u2019s been a lot of close-and-reopen chaos ever since (and with some teachers going remote even as students are in school), even as infection rates for the system remain low.<\/p>\n

Maybe the pandemic will provoke a sea change: a growing exodus from public systems, or reforms that ensure the kids actually become the top priority.<\/p>\n

Certainly, Americans have seen countless public systems basically give up in this crisis; the only question is what they\u2019ll do after learning that bitter lesson.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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