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Rotherham  \nIntroduction  \nOver the past 18 months, the parents of an estimated 10.8 million students, or nearly one in five of the nation’s schoolchildren, did not get what they wanted from their child’s school. These families are not a monolith—they represent a diverse range of communities found across America, both in terms of  \nrace/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. While some were more economically equipped to react, all have felt the disruptions of the pandemic in their daily lives.  \nTwo important changes have taken root among these families. First, there has been a fundamental transformation of what families prioritize for their kids’ physical, mental, emotional, and academic development. Second, for the first time in modern history, nearly every family in America had to consider different educational settings for their children.  \nFamilies’ preferences for their children’s education in the fall of 2020 looked very different from their preferences in any previous year. Some have been able to find new options to meet their needs, some have disengaged from the system entirely, and others will have to grapple with unresponsive systems and limited choices this fall. Together, they are The Overlooked.  \nTABLE 1. MEET THE OVERLOOKED  \nGROUP  \nESTIMATED NUMBER OF STUDENTS  \nWHO ARE THESE CHILDREN?  \nThe Movers 8.7 million Children who changed schools between the 2019-20 and  \n2020-21 school years outside of normal grade-level progressions.  \n\n| The Missed | 0.6 million | Children who did not enroll in any formal schooling during the 2020-21 school year. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| The Muted | 1.5 million | Children of parents who are frustrated with their current schooling option and lack access to their preferred alternative(s). |\n\nThe Overlooked 10.8 million Combined populations of The Movers, The Missed,  \nand The Muted.  \n[BellwetherEducation.org](BellwetherEducation.org)  \nThere were early signs of hope that schools were meeting the expectations of families during the first months of the pandemic. During the summer of 2020, Americans displayed a boost of confidence in the public school system: Gallup’s annual poll of institutional trust showed a 12-percentage-point jump in Americans with “quite a lot” or “a great deal”of trust in public schools—a historic single-year increase. [1] But that increased confidence was short-lived. A year later during the summer of 2021, that same measure of trust dropped by 9  \npercentage points. [2] It’s likely that the 2020 jump was due to respondents signaling solidarity with public schools as schools responded to an unprecedented situation rather than a durable increase in confidence.  \nFamilies’ initial optimism about how schools would adapt to the pandemic declined as they witnessedits negative effects on students’ growth and development. Estimates vary, but some researchers have suggested that the pandemic’s negative impact on student learning may be two to four times larger than what students in New Orleans felt in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. [3]  \nMillions of families are concerned that the schools they trusted their children with pre-pandemic will not be able to meet their needs moving forward. Some have been able to move their kids to a different school, some avoided or delayed schooling entirely, and others are frustrated with the lack of options for their kids. All of these families share a common problem: Their children’s needs are being overlooked and they are being underserved.  \nWho Are The Overlooked?  \nThe Overlooked are students and families who did not get what they wanted from their child’s school over the past 18 months. 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