One of the benefits (if you can call it that) of in-person education is enforcement. You can make sure each student is sitting in class, and create absentee and truancy policies and laws to address those who aren't. In online learning, especially during a pandemic, it's a lot harder without significant surveillance technologies. And it forces us to recognize that schools and (to a lesser degree) colleges are a surveillance system, and for that matter, so is our entire system of in-person employment. There are also social justice issues at play, as the students who go missing are also the ones who are homeless, or who are living in poverty, or in unstable homes. I have articles from Gallup, Education Week, EdSurge, Tampa Bay Times, SJ Mercury News, each of which tells a different story.
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