Opinion: Over a million families fled public schools last year

Opinion: Over a million families fled public schools last year

People have a habit of saying one thing and then doing another. Social scientists use fancy terms like “expressed preferences” versus “revealed preferences” when dealing with this state of affairs. Well, the data on public school enrollment are coming out, and while survey respondents express that they’re generally satisfied with how public schools responded to the pandemic, the enrollment numbers reveal a very different story.