Avast! Three hundred thousand wee landlubbers in NYC be skippin' school, while grades sink faster than a cannonball—aarrr!
2025-03-06
Ahoy, matey! 'Tis been a fortnight, d'ye ken where yer wee scallywags be? Aye, a third o' New York's young brigands — 300,000 — be missin' from their lessons! And yet, the gold poured into learnin' ain't raisin' their scores in readin' and math, blow me down!
Ahoy, mateys! Gather 'round, for I bring ye news from the bustling shores of New York City, where the scallywags of education be raisin’ a ruckus! It be said that more than a third of the wee buccaneers, about 300,000 of 'em, be wanderin' the streets instead of settlin' their noggins in classrooms. Aye, they be "chronically absent," whatever that means! Perhaps they be searchin' fer buried treasure or just loungin' at the docks with a pint o' grog!This here news be droppin' like a cannonball into the sea, comin' straight from a study that hit the decks just yesterday. And what’s this? Despite the state throwin’ heaps of gold into the treasure chest of education, the wee ones' test scores in math and readin’ be nothin’ to crow about! They be languishin' in mediocrity, like a ship stuck in the doldrums!