{"id":2022420,"date":"2023-09-05T16:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T20:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schools-see-spike-in-student-absences-even-though-lockdowns-are-over\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:13:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T20:13:24","slug":"schools-see-spike-in-student-absences-even-though-lockdowns-are-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schools-see-spike-in-student-absences-even-though-lockdowns-are-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools experience increased student absences despite the end of lockdowns."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fschools-see-spike-in-student-absences-even-though-lockdowns-are-over%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=2022420&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--><h2>Where Have All\u2064 the\u2064 Students\u200d Gone?<\/h2>\n<p>Now that school lockdowns are over, schools are wondering \u2014 where are the students?<\/p>\n<p>School absences have spiked since the pandemic.\u2062 Now, over three\u200c years after lockdowns began, many students are simply not showing up\u2062 for class.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 10% of K-12 students were missing from \u200cschool on an average day during the 2022-2023 school year, according to preliminary state data reported by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>About a\u2064 quarter of students were chronically absent, meaning they missed 10% or more of school days \u2014\u2064 about three and a half weeks. Before COVID, only about 15% of students were chronically absent. About 6.5 million more\u2062 students became chronically absent across 40 states and Washington, D.C., according to absenteeism data from Thomas \u2064Dee, a Stanford\u2063 economist.<\/p>\n<p>Black, Latino, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-gov-newsom-announces-2b-plan-to-reopen-schools-by-spring\/\" title=\"Calif. Gov. Newsom announces B plan to reopen schools by spring\">low-income students<\/a> were more likely \u2064to be absent. Notably in some cases,\u2064 absenteeism has spiked more\u200b in \u200bsome \u200bblue areas where schools were on lockdown for\u2062 longer during the pandemic, according to Dee\u2019s data as\u2063 well as remote schooling enrollment data from Thomas Kane, a Harvard economist.<\/p>\n<p>In New Mexico, Alaska, and Arizona, where \u2062school \u2063lockdowns were longer, absenteeism rates rose by\u2062 more\u2063 than 20 percentage points between 2019 and 2022. California\u2062 and Oregon, both of which had prolonged school lockdowns, both saw their\u2063 absenteeism\u200d rates rise more than 15 percentage points between those years. Washington, D.C, which also had prolonged lockdowns,\u2064 had elevated levels of absenteeism as well.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, states \u200clike Arkansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, and West Virginia, which went back to in-person learning \u2063more \u2062quickly, all saw absenteeism rise by below 10 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts say one factor could \u200cbe that thanks to school lockdowns, attendance now feels more optional.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1693504018745000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1RMMjCvCBOBYdpkw5O_njE\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+\u200b APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>The Impact of Lockdowns on Attendance<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cFor almost two years, we told families that\u200d school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of \u2063the traditional 8-to-3 day,\u201d said\u2064 Elmer Roldan, who runs a school dropout prevention group in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamilies \u2062got used to \u200bthat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue is parents keeping their anxious\u2064 children home from school, a \u2063decision psychologists say is understandably tempting for parents but can cause more anxiety down the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most fundamental thing for adults to understand is that avoidance feeds\u2064 anxiety,\u201d Lisa Damour, a psychologist and the author of \u201cThe Emotional\u2062 Lives \u2063of \u200bTeenagers,\u201d told The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen any \u200cof us are fearful, our instinct is to avoid. But \u2063the problem with giving in to that anxiety is that avoidance is highly reinforcing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h3>The Learning Loss Dilemma<\/h3>\n<p>Meanwhile, students are\u2063 still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schools-see-spike-in-student-absences-even-though-lockdowns-are-over\/\" title=\"Schools experience increased student absences despite the end of lockdowns.\">battling significant learning \u2064loss caused<\/a> by months of remote schooling. The average math and reading test\u2063 scores for 13-year-olds plummeted to \u200bthe lowest levels in decades, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) officials reported in\u200b June.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, students may actually be doing worse than before COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a study showed that fourth\u200b through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/many-college-students-stuck-at-9th-grade-math-level-professors-blame-pandemic\/\" title=\"College students struggle with 9th grade math due to pandemic, say professors.\">eighth-grade students made<\/a> even slower progress in \u2064reading and math last year than before the pandemic, dashing hopes that kids would learn faster to make up for learning loss during COVID. At\u2062 the same time, college students who were in high school during remote learning are arriving \u200don campus unprepared. Many are\u200d struggling with basic math and have had to go back and learn the basics.<\/p>\n<h3>The Shift in School Enrollment<\/h3>\n<p>Some \u2062families also opted to pull their children out of public school for good, opting instead for charter, private, and\u2063 parish\u200b schools or homeschooling. Public school\u200d enrollment numbers dropped precipitously after the pandemic began. Public schools\u200b lost 1.4 million students between fall 2019 \u2063and fall 2020,\u200c the National Center \u200bfor Education Statistics reported.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, homeschooling rose by 30% between the school year that \u2062began in 2019 and the one that \u200bbegan in 2021, a study from the Urban \u200bInstitute showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools are grappling with the aftermath of lockdowns as student absences surge. Even after three years, a significant number of students are still not attending classes. 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