Ed Morrissey of Hot Air quotes at length from a New York Times article (behind paywall) about falling enrollments in public schools. You'll remember we wrote about this issue over two weeks ago.
All together, America’s public schools have lost at least 1.2 million students since 2020, according to a recently published national survey. State enrollment figures show no sign of a rebound to the previous national levels any time soon.
Experts point to two potential causes: Some parents became so fed up with remote instruction or mask mandates that they started home-schooling their children or sending them to private or parochial schools that largely remained open during the pandemic. And other families were thrown into such turmoil by pandemic-related job losses, homelessness and school closures that their children simply dropped out.
As Morrissey points out, a third potential cause is that parents looked at the material their students were being taught on-line and were turned off by the public school curriculum's progressive social and political agenda. Reason enough to not want one's children indoctrinated with repulsive stuff.
The actions of the public school systems during the pandemic made clear to parents that they are being run for the benefit of the teachers and administrators. Welfare of the students seems to matter very little.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. As enrollments drop, budgets shrink, meaning fewer teachers, fewer schools, fewer career advancement opportunities.
