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55% of NYC 12th-graders chronically absent post-COVID
« on: May 21, 2023, 02:13:23 pm »
55% of NYC 12th-graders chronically absent post-COVID

By Susan Edelman   
May 20, 2023

Nearly 56% of New York City 12th-graders missed at least 18 days of school last year, an alarming new post-pandemic study has found.

And despite the full opening of city schools after the COVID-19 crisis, nearly 50% of black and Hispanic students were chronically absent.

By borough, Bronx kids missed the most classes, 48%, data show.

“Student absenteeism has become significantly worse in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,” says the study issued Friday by the government watchdog Empire Center for Public Policy. “Students simply aren’t coming to school with the same regularity as they did before the pandemic.”

Kids fail to show for various reasons — including jobs, caring for younger siblings or feeling disengaged from school. In some ways, COVID lockdowns and remote classes “normalized the idea of not attending,” the report says.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/05/20/55-of-nyc-12th-graders-chronically-absent-post-covid/

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Re: 55% of NYC 12th-graders chronically absent post-COVID
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2023, 04:47:55 pm »
55% of NYC 12th-graders chronically absent post-COVID

By Susan Edelman   
May 20, 2023

Nearly 56% of New York City 12th-graders missed at least 18 days of school last year, an alarming new post-pandemic study has found.

And despite the full opening of city schools after the COVID-19 crisis, nearly 50% of black and Hispanic students were chronically absent.

By borough, Bronx kids missed the most classes, 48%, data show.

“Student absenteeism has become significantly worse in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,” says the study issued Friday by the government watchdog Empire Center for Public Policy. “Students simply aren’t coming to school with the same regularity as they did before the pandemic.”

Kids fail to show for various reasons — including jobs, caring for younger siblings or feeling disengaged from school. In some ways, COVID lockdowns and remote classes “normalized the idea of not attending,” the report says.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/05/20/55-of-nyc-12th-graders-chronically-absent-post-covid/
And I bet every single one of them is handed a diploma.

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Re: 55% of NYC 12th-graders chronically absent post-COVID
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2023, 07:14:53 pm »
Sad but almost certainly true, @GtHawk.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2023, 11:32:42 pm »
IMO, employers should sue PSs for the fraud of diploma devaluation. A high school diploma used to mean something. Now, it often means nothing, not even time served.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.