She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then. 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. “Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. School leaders and some state officials worried aloud about the fiscal challenges their districts faced if these students didn’t come back. His school-issued laptop didn’t work, and because of bureaucratic hurdles the district didn’t issue a new one for several weeks.

Source: National Post February 20, 2023 01:59 UTC