{"id":187215,"date":"2021-03-02T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=187215"},"modified":"2021-03-02T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T22:00:26","slug":"thousands-of-marginalized-students-are-missing-from-virtual-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-of-marginalized-students-are-missing-from-virtual-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Thousands\u2019 Of Marginalized Students Are Missing From Virtual Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthousands-of-marginalized-students-are-missing-from-virtual-learning%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=187215&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Public-Schools-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/thousands-students-reported-missing-school-systems-nationwide-amid\/story?id=76063922\">ABC News reports<\/a> that \u201cthousands\u201d \u2014 and perhaps \u201cmillions\u201d \u2014 of educationally marginalized students are \u201cmissing\u201d from the educational system, and have been since March of 2020, following a move to mostly virtual learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The report also suggests that public school enrollment has plummeted as parents switch their students out to private schools, many of which have been in-person during the 2020-2021 school year, or transition to homeschooling, even if temporarily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStates around the country are reporting a significant decline in the number of students enrolled in public school because of the\u00a0coronavirus pandemic, leaving experts and educators concerned about the trend, and its potential long-term consequences,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/thousands-students-reported-missing-school-systems-nationwide-amid\/story?id=76063922\">outlet noted Tuesday<\/a>. \u201cA notable number of students seem to have simply fallen off the grid, not showing up for online or in-person instruction, their whereabouts unknown by school officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The problem seems to be particularly egregious within \u201cunderserved\u201d and lower-income communities. Although there is no efficient or foolproof way to quantify the available data, ABC News says, the magnitude of the problem seems immense. According to at least one education non-profit that focuses on marginalized communities, as many as 3 million students could be missing from school.<\/p>\n<p>That study, compiled by the Bellwether Education Partners, \u201c\u2018estimates that approximately 3 million of the \u2018most educationally marginalized students in the country\u2019 may have been missing from school since March 2020, when the pandemic forced school closures. The group said it arrived at the number by calculating a \u2018likely percentage of at-risk groups not in school, based on media reports and available data.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michigan K-12 enrollment has dropped by the tens of thousands. More than 100,000 students are missing from Dallas, Texas, schools alone. Florida is also reportedly seeking the whereabouts of around 100,000 kids.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News notes that a severe drop in Kindergarten enrollment may account for some of the \u201cmissing\u201d kids. National Public Radio reports that, based on crude numbers, it appears that there\u2019s been a nearly 20% drop in Kindergarten enrollment nationwide as parents struggle with a \u201cvirtual learning\u201d environment that would have 5- and 6-year-olds parked in front of computers for extended periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany education experts are skeptical about the virtues of remote learning for very young children, and lots of parents seem to feel the same way,\u201d NPR reported back in October of last year. Parents who spoke to the network also cited mask mandates and social distancing requirements, which children may have difficulty following.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem is also broadband access. The National Education Association (NEA), the nation\u2019s largest teachers union, found, in its own study, that 25% of school-age children lack reliable access to wifi, making virtual schooling a near impossibility.<\/p>\n<p>Another part of the problem may be virtual learning itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a learning standpoint, that was potentially catastrophic,\u201d one education expert told ABC News. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve learned, over the course of the last 12 months, is that from both a learning and a health\u00a0perspective, there are millions of students for whom virtual learning just is not working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a subset of those students who are completely detached from their school systems at the moment,\u201d the expert continued. \u201cThey have logged off. They don\u2019t feel connected enough to their own learning to log on every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News reports that \u201cthousands\u201d \u2014 and perhaps \u201cmillions\u201d \u2014 of educationally marginalized students are \u201cmissing\u201d from the educational system, and have been since March of 2020, following a move &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274599,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Public-Schools-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Thousands\u2019 Of Marginalized Students Are Missing From Virtual Learning","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Public-Schools-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Thousands\u2019 Of Marginalized Students Are Missing From Virtual Learning","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}