Black and Latino children are more than twice as likely to be absent from school as they were before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, in 2019. More than 25% of students missed at least 10% of the 2021-2022 school year, making them chronically absent, according to the most recent data available. Before the pandemic, only 15% of students missed that much school. According to this article: Millions of kids are missing weeks of school as attendance tanks across the US, Bianca Vazquez Toness, Associated Press, August 10, 2023 They are concerned this will not be good for these children's future. They cited a variety of reasons that might be causing this. Family finances, housing instability, illness, transportation issues, school staffing shortages (a lot of teachers who were terminated because they refused to get the coronavirus vaccine left and refuse to come back, afraid it could happen to their career again), increased anxiety and depression, bullying. Some students might simply have become accustomed to not attending school classrooms, after schools in some areas closed for an extended period during the pandemic. They also observed that schools seem to be more unwelcoming than they were before the pandemic began, with school workers on edge. Some teachers are noticing students seem more disconnected. related thread: Why fewer Americans are going to college
Well, when the political right bans books about their struggles and even their existence, and when they are denied the right to rise above 2nd class citizenship, what can we expect?
I'm giving this the nomination for the dumbest attempt to turn the tables around on the other side I have seen on this forum. As if anyone would seriously believe black and brown children are not showing up to school because the schools do not have enough "racially diverse" books. Not to mention that most all of those "book bans" have to do with sexual minorities, not racial minorities, which makes your attempt to draw a connection disingenuous and kind of dishonest. (Do you really think that being forced to read about gay romances and transgender sexual encounters is going to make black teens more likely to show up to school?? More likely it would just make a black male 15-year-old want to get the (*)(*)(*)(*) out of there, I would assume)
And I'll do the same. Yours is the dumbest attempt to concoct an objection to something you dislike I've ever seen anywhere. You even invented the notion that my comment was about "black and brown children". Why is race on your mind? Is that normal for you? I said "when the political right bans books about their struggles and even their existence, and when they are denied the right to rise above 2nd class citizenship, what can we expect?" We can expect the kind of public ****-show we're seeing about rainbows, gays, blacks, browns, yellows, and the disabled. And we can expect a minority of confused, objecting troublemakers to make trouble over it.
Well, if your comment was not specifically in relation to "black and brown" children, then your comment was totally off-topic, since that was what the topic of this thread was about.
