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EastVillage,10009: 728Morethan2,80 0Morethan2,10 0Morethan1,40 0Morethan 700Dissatisfaction with the New York City public
schools in the midst of COVID-19 is driving thou-
sands of families to switch their children to pri-
vate schools, home-school their kids or move out
of the city entirely, sources say.
City schools have lost 31,000 students, about 3.
percent of the roughly 1 million kids enrolled last
year, according to preliminary data obtained by
education-news outlet Chalkbeat.
The DOE’s enrollment has slipped to just over
901,000, the report finds. That does not include
about 130,000 students in charter schools, or
50,000 kids in early-childhood programs.
At schools where 80 percent of kids come from
low-income families, enrollment dropped
by 19,000 students, or 4 percent. The most afflu-
ent schools lost 2,800 students, or about 12 per-
cent.
The Archdiocese of New York said its Catholic
schools have received nearly 2,000 applications
from public school parents so far this year, offi-
cials told The Post.
The city Department of Education refused to
detail the exodus.
“School buildings have been open for just over
a month and their registers are not yet finalized
or audited, so any declarations about enrollment
are premature,” spokeswoman Katie O’Hanlon
told The Post. But the DOE did confirm that more
than 10,667 kids as of Oct. 23 are now being home-
schooled. That’s up 31 percent over last year.
Natalia Petrzela and her husband recently made
the “difficult decision” to pull their 8-year-old
daughter out of a downtown elementary school
and enroll her in a Manhattan private school.
Since September, the child has been going to
class just one to two days a week, Petrzela said.
Live class time on remote days lasts just 110 min-
utes, leaving the rest of the time for independent
work.
Science is missing from the bare-bones blended
schedule, the mom said, and the online system is
plagued by time-wasting glitches.
“I saw my young daughter getting more demoral-
ized and disappointed,” said Petrzela, a New School
professor and the author of “Classroom Wars,” a
book about public education in California. “That’s a
really sad thing to see in a child who wants to be an
enthusiastic learner.” Susan EdelmanPublic-school
registrations
plummeting
Natalia Petrzela: Says it was a difficult but
necessary decision to pull her child from public school.