Posted on 07/05/2021 5:32:14 AM PDT by blam
Even more stark is drop in enrollment among younger students: 13% for preschool and kindergarten.
The number of students attending public schools during the 2020-2021 academic year fell by roughly 3% compared with the previous year.
The data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, a federal agency that analyzes education figures.
The 3% drop represents some 1.5 million students according to the preliminary report. A final report will not be available until next spring, according to the NCES. Figures come from reports generated by state departments of education.
There were 51.1 million students enrolled in conventional and public charter schools during the 2019-2020 academic year.
Even more stark is the drop in enrollment among younger students. Preschool enrollment fell by 22%, and preschool and kindergarten enrollment combined dropped 13%.
By contrast, high school enrollment fell by 0.4%.
Ross Santy, associate commissioner for the NCES, noted how rare it is for public schools to lose students.
"K-12 enrollment in our nation's public schools has been increasing almost every year since the start of this century," Santy said in a statement. "Before this year, in the few recent years where we have seen enrollment decreases, they have been small changes representing less than 1 percent of total enrollment."
Some 29 states experienced enrollment declines of between 1% and 3%. Washington, D.C., Utah, South Dakota, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa saw decreases of less than 1%.
Vermont, Mississippi and Puerto Rico all saw enrollment fall by more than 5%, while Washington, New Mexico, Michigan, Kentucky and Maine lost between 4% and 5% of enrollment.
The coronavirus pandemic and government-imposed restrictions that closed schools have been the main drivers behind the drop in the number of public school students.
The large drop in enrollment among younger students confirms earlier speculation that families chose to keep those students out of school rather than attempt virtual learning.
Home-schooling, meanwhile, more than doubled between the end of the 2019-2020 school year and the start of 2020-2021.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 5.4% of American households said they were home-schooling their children in the spring of 2020. By October of 2020, that figure reached 11.1%.
"It's clear that in an unprecedented environment, families are seeking solutions that will reliably meet their health and safety needs, their childcare needs and the learning and socio-emotional needs of their children," the Census Bureau said in a recent report.
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3%
BAH!
PEANUTS! A rounding error.
Get back to me when there is enough courage in this country to make it 40 or 60%!
Heres a federal law I would like to see. Ban the use of property tax for education.
Families don’t need to buy houses in great school districts anymore they need to plan for an alternative education choice.
Here’s a reminder what a persistent effort can accomplish.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017810/posts
We can win. We will win.
People are upset at me when they tell me that they own their home 'free and clear' and I remind them that they're just renting from the government...they say do you mean... I say, miss one property tax payment and see who shows up at your door claiming your property.
You don't OWN anything.
Ban Property tax completely!
I’m surprised its not closer to 25%.
Not true. The main driver is CRT being implemented and enforced in public schools.
I no longer have school-aged children but neither of them would be in public school today.
That said, this is good news, hope it continues and accelerates. Also, make sure you vote down any/all school bonds. The schools today no only do not represent my and my family's views, they are diametrically opposed to almost everything I believe in.
Exactly! My daughter and her soon-to-be husband are already setting aside money for their future children’s private school education.
They live in an area where CRT is being welcomed in the schools.
It probably is.
The media will never report it.
I have a feeling a lot of kids won’t be back in the fall. Home schooling is on the rise.
Three percent is nothing.
The preschool numbers were surprising. Most parents use it for free babysitting.
I suspect this has more to do with parents working from home and keeping their young kids home with them, along with fearful Karens who afraid of having their kids exposed to COVID.
It should be dropping by double digits.
Bet the drop is larger than that.
School districts should be audited to check for ghost enrollment. Kids they claim are there, but aren’t.
Hint, hint.
Now, if you want to get into the numbers of the unschooled and/or uneducated altogether, you might get up to the 40% range or so.
The young who do go to physical schools are not so much being educated, as they are indoctrinated. Those who are unschooled altogether are at least getting a street education, if a little rough at times, in the arts of sheer survival, which in many instances means dodging bullets.
I've read that home-schooling has doubled over the last year or so.
From what I’ve seen in my family, my church and my neighborhood, CRT has everything to do with it.
Parents are aware of what is going on, the indoctrination - acutely aware of it - and don’t want their children to be any part of it. And, I couldn’t agree more.
Wake me when it reaches 72.7%.
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