underperforming on tests while growing increasingly depressed, anxious and angry.Even when it was clear remote learning was hurting children considerably more than COVID ever could, teachers' unions still demanded students be kept in masks or continue to stay home.
Parents had had enough.The 2020-2021 school year saw an astonishing 3 percent of pupils leave their public schools, with the largest number coming from the younger grades.
This represents roughly 1.5 million students nationwide. Now, thanks to newly released data, we're seeing the exact numbers on the local level.
They're not pretty.California saw a dramatic loss of 110,000 public school students, with enrollment dropping faster than it did before the pandemic.