By Reagan Reese
Daily Caller News Foundation
Thousands of students who fled the public school system during the pandemic are unaccounted for by K-12 school districts, according to a report by Stanford University and the Associated Press.
Roughly 240,000 K-12 students in 21 states and the District of Columbia had no school records from 2019-2022, according to a report by Stanford University and the Associated Press. Though most students who left the public school system entered into home-schooling and the public school system, more than one-third of the students are unaccounted for.
“There’s this chunk that we just can’t explain,” Thomas S. Dee, a Stanford professor and the author of the study, told The Wall Street Journal.
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Through 2019-2022, in 21 states where data was available, 710,000 left the public school system, the report showed. Private school enrollment rose by 103,000 students while home-schooled students increased by 184,000.
The population of school-aged kids in the U.S. dropped by about 183,000 students, the report stated. Regardless of the increases in private and home-school enrollment, thousands are not recorded in the school system.
It is possible that families are not enrolling their students in kindergarten and home-schooling their children without notifying the school, the report stated. At least 19 states mandate that kids enroll in kindergarten and states who do not require the grade were more likely to have undocumented students.
The unaccounted for students come as the nation suffers historic learning loss; between 2020 and 2022, the nation’s reading scores dropped to fall in line with numbers from 1990, while math scores fell for the first time. Every state has seen a decline in its students’ math scores since 2019 while fourth and eighth-grade students recorded the largest drops ever.
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Why are America’s children systematically sexualized at school, and by transgender recruiters on social media platforms like TikTok, seducing many into “identifying” as the opposite gender, or a brand-new imaginary gender, then encouraged to take powerful drugs and hormones and have their healthy breasts amputated or undergo chemical or surgical castration?
Why are our children simultaneously indoctrinated with toxic Marxist ideologies like “critical race theory” intended to condition them to hate and reject their own country, parents, faith, race, gender and themselves? Why are they simultaneously being frightened of the future by being fed lurid, terrifying – and groundless – apocalyptic tales of the imminent destruction of the world due to global warming?
No wonder youth suicides have skyrocketed, as have depression, anxiety, addiction and drug overdoses. Indeed, fentanyl, the No. 1 cause of death of younger Americans 18 to 45, destroys multitudes of children annually.
Make no mistake: The harm being done to America’s children in this multi-front war is not accidental: Children are the primary target.
WHY? How can all this be happening in the greatest nation on earth? Who and what is behind it? And HOW CAN IT BE STOPPED?
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