Number of Students Absent from School Skyrockets

More than one in four students enrolled in government schools nationwide are now considered “chronically absent,” up from just 15 percent before the tyrannical response to COVID, revealed an analysis of data from almost 40 states.

Some jurisdictions such as Washington, D.C., have rates as high as 60 percent of students chronically absent, according to news reports. One government school in Massachusetts had a 98.9 percent rate of chronic absenteeism, meaning virtually every student missed at least 10 percent of school days.