the state of Florida is looking for nearly 100,000 missing
students between virtual learning and in person classes. These
public school kids have just disappeared, and one reason
this number is so important is because school funding depends
on the number of students. So no students,
no cash Box 35 Salina Shirazi Looking into where these
kids could be. Nearly 90,000 public school students have
disappeared, tens of thousands of students dropping out of
school. This would be like closing the Brevard County
public schools. That's about the number of people who
go to school. In Brevard County public school enrolment
estimates have plummeted during the pandemic. Local education officials
in Florida lawmakers air trying to figure out where those
students have gone. Representative Randy Fine says there are
four possibilities. Some of the students may be home
schooled. Some of the students, maybe in private
school now. Theoretically, their parents should have given
a form to the school district so they would know
that that hasn't happened. The third group of students
are parents who may have chosen to hold their Children
back from kindergarten, and the fourth and probably the
largest group, are no school, and that's just
that's crazy to think about. The Legislature's Office of
Economic and Demographic Research released the latest student enrollment numbers
late January. But the question is how much of
that drop can be attributed to students leaving public schools
for home schooling or private school, something we won't
know until they look at the numbers again next month
. We're doing an updated count, and we will
see if that 87,000 number has come down. If
students have shown up, if forms have filled in
, been filled in, if school districts have found
some of them, there are a host of at
home education options available. There's no excuse for your
child not to be going to school on the Space
Coast. Alina Shirazi Fox, 35 News.