Schools across the country are struggling to get students to show up reliably.
Pandemic school closings wiped out more than two decades of progressThe best estimates suggest more than 1 in 4 American students are chronically absent. That’s double the rate in 2019, when absenteeism was already a serious problem.
But the situation isn’t hopeless. Most education pundits and school administrators wringing their hands about the chronic absenteeism crisis are missing an essential remedy: educational freedom. When schools shut down in the early days of the pandemic — and then dragged their feet reopening — they sent parents the message that school was no longer essential.
In the years since the pandemic, surveys by EdChoice have consistently shown that roughly half of parents want to keep their children home from school at least one day a week. The latest EdChoice survey finds nearly two-thirds of American teens think school is boring. Over 1 in 5 reported missing school because of lack of interest.I lead an organization that uses virtual reality to deliver immersive learning experiences. When students can tour the Egyptian pyramids and study a whale’s anatomy in 3D, they look forward to history and science classes.
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