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A record number of NYC kids have missed the last two weeks of school
New York Daily NewsNew York City students are missing school in record numbers — staying home in droves because they’re sick, quarantined, fearful of getting COVID-19 in class or don’t see the point of going because so many others are absent, families and educators told the Daily News.
Over the past nine school days — the four-day week leading up to winter break in late December, and last week, the first back from vacation — citywide attendance, which averaged close to 90% for much of the fall, dropped to 69%. It reached a daily high 80% on Dec. 21, hovered in the 70s and 60s the other days, and got as low as 44.5% Friday, when the city was hit with a snowstorm, city Education Department data show.
Over the past nine school days — the four-day week leading up to winter break in late December, and last week, the first back from vacation — citywide attendance, which averaged close to 90% for much of the fall, dropped to 69%. It reached a daily high 80% on Dec. 21, hovered in the 70s and 60s the other days, and got as low as 44.5% Friday, when the city was hit with a snowstorm, city Education Department data show.