Teachers insisted their jobs were not ‘essential.’ Now plenty of students feel that way too.
The 2022-2023 school year, close to 10 percent of nation’s K-12 students did not attend classes on the average day, The New York Times‘ David Leonhardt reported in his newsletter. A quarter of students are chronically absent. “That’s a vastly higher share than before COVID.”
The biggest reason truancy is on the rise, Leonhardt posits, “seems to be simply that students have fallen out of the habit of going to school every day.”
In Canada Teachers insist they are essential but teaching isn’t, unless it’s about changing your gender or learning to dress in drag.
