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How to Get Students to School? Stop Driving them Out!

June 22, 2026 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

There’s much handwringing about absenteeism, even though many understand that corporate school reformers have always wanted students to leave public schools and mosey over to charters, homeschools, parochial schools, or private schools when they can afford them. Indeed, Steele and Hanover of the World Socialist Website offer one of the most honest explanations as to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: class sizes are still large, drive for school privatization, public school systems serve students, Public schools still have bad buildings, technology and AI are unproven, The continuing loss of the arts in public schools, third grade retention fails students

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