The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school

The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school

She’d be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading her school’s modern dance troupe and taking art classes.

The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school - West Hawaii Today

She’d be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading her school’s modern dance troupe and taking art classes.

The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school

Hundreds of thousands of students who have dropped off public school rolls since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic are unaccounted for.

The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school

These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data. In short, they’re missing.

The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school

An analysis found an estimated 240,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for.

The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS and SHARON LURYE She’d be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading her school’s modern dance troupe and taking art classes. Instead, Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn’t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus pandemic. She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, una…