School districts float virtual education as ICE raids continue

Educators in school districts across the country are touting virtual schools in the wake of increasing ICE presence around schools. Industry website K-12 Dive says educators in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York have all floated the idea, noting that more than 600,000 K-12 students were in the United States in 2021 without legal permission. A recent report from Psychiatry Online found that children are struggling with “chronic fear, instability and trauma” because of police raids in what were previously considered safe spaces: “Forced family separations, particularly those resulting from immigration enforcement (e.g., detention, deportation), introduce acute psychological risks.”