The Children Who Disappeared

October 25, 2021 Sarah Worley
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While researching for my linguistics capstone project, I came across this article about students in K-12 settings who were unable to attend school for various reasons. Most of these students either were from lower income families, were foster children, or struggled to focus in an online setting. I found this interesting because many of these students were missed completely by their teachers and suffered because of something completely out of their control.

Sarah Worley

25 Responses to “The Children Who Disappeared”

  • Zoya Erdevig
    5 years ago
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    Sarah, thank you for sharing this story. This is gut-wrenching but sadly not surprising. I knew that some kids disappeared from classes but I didn’t know it was this bad. The statistic of 3 million kids vanishing from school just goes to show that success in our society is based on wealth (which is in turn tied to race and disability status). I teach two high school classes online and I have two students who have only come to the Zoom room a handful of times each. One student told me he doesn’t understand the school’s course management platform, and the other student said he’s been busy with an illness in the family. The students live in Hawaii so I am powerless to help them. I can only tell their schools and hope the schools will do something — but I know teachers are already overworked. I can’t imagine being a public school teacher and also acting as a social worker. The pandemic has really exposed the glaring inequalities and insufficiency of social safety nets in the US. It’s only a silver lining if we actually work to do something about it. But looking at Congress and the filibuster, I’m not sure what’s going to happen. 🙁

  • Jada
    5 years ago
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    My first reaction to this story is that I had originally thought it was about undocumented students who had stopped attending class due to immigration issues concerning them are their parents. I had no idea about this and I’m honestly infuriated reading this article. The pandemic has and continues to have these adverse effects on kids, when most people are not focused on their health or wellbeing because they are not the “most vulnerable” group of people “affected” by COVID-19. This article is further proof that in the United States there are stark amounts of inequality that affect many K-12 students, and that the poor handling of the pandemic by the US government has “made the bed” for these students and is forcing them to “lay: in it. There’s a terrible precedent being set that school is an escape from “daily life” and it will continue to get worse the longer we ignore it.

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