I hadn’t thought about this, but I live in an area that probably fits this description. I remember hearing last year that our school’s kindergarten class was small. They kept all 5 teachers, but class sizes were like 12 kids.
Yeup. It’s a thing local news is covering, but I haven’t seen really enter The Discourse (TM) yet. Happening in the a Denver suburbs where I am, happening in the Dallas suburbs when I visited family at the holidays. Award winning schools that people fought to get into are closing.
If it is a really good school, why wouldn’t they just expand the zone and close less “in-demand” schools? In the state I live in, when a school is not at full enrollment, kids outside of the zone can also apply, which seems like a better alternative than closing a good school.
Proximity is really important, especially for young kids. It’s hard to do a 30+ minute drive twice a day for them (plus commute to work) and then gets more complicated with multiple kids going to different schools. Sometimes the sacrifice is worth it, but it’d be better to allow more housing!
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