Kids Have Stopped Going to School
1st September 2023
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
Pretty much everyone now agrees that shutting down our schools during the covid epidemic, at the demand of teachers’ unions, was one of the most catastrophic policy decisions of modern times. As I have said before, it is unfortunate that some old and very sick people had their demises hastened by covid, but what government did to our children, for no good reason, was a crime.
Having skipped school for a year or more courtesy of the teachers’ unions, a great many kids have never gone back, at least not on a consistent basis. Why should they, once not showing up got the official OK? Alpha News has the distressing statistics for Minnesota. True, Minnesota is a deeply troubled state. But I doubt the numbers would be much different in other blue states.
People are realizing that government schools aren’t the valuable asset that they once where, and are now actively harmful, both to a child’s education and to society in general. Parents are discovering that there are other and better resources available. In a (mostly) free-market system, that’s all it takes.