[Hildy]

What's the rest of this story? Is this due to lower birthrate? Private schools? People moving? What is this due to? I thought in the last 15 years Seattle population soared...what's the real deal?

[george76]

Families are tired of the radical left agenda.

The students are not being taught enough how to read, write, and do math.

The kids have high school geography teachers not teaching high school geography...rather the geography teacher spends the class time on his personal, political rants...like Jay Bennish.

[Hexenhammer]

Well, if it's anything like Portland, Oregon, the population is soaring with people who either won't have kids (young professionals) or older folks who can't. Couples who want to have children, raise them in a safe, clean environment, and possibly have a parent stay at home, live in the suburbs because the housing is so much cheaper here.

Better schools, better homes, safer neighborhoods.

[Political Junkie Too]

I thought in the last 15 years Seattle population soared...what's the real deal?

Maybe that was just in voter registrations?

-PJ

[Ditto]

What's the rest of this story? Is this due to lower birthrate? Private schools? People moving? What is this due to? I thought in the last 15 years Seattle population soared...what's the real deal?

Like most big cities, I'd imagine. The leftist drive taxes ever higher while supporting public dysfunctionality that is not "family friendly." That combination drives the traditional middle class family to the suburbs leaving behind the wealthy and DINKs who don't use public schools, the retired who don't have kids, and the welfare class which probably accounts for most of those enrolled in public schools.

Some cities require their public employees including teachers to live inside the city limits and in many cases, those individuals represent the majority of what remains of the traditional middle class families in those cities.

[randog]

I thought in the last 15 years Seattle population soared...what's the real deal?

Maybe because whitey need not apply:

http://www.seattleschools.org/area/equityandrace/definitionofrace.xml

[DennisR]

Liberalism.

Seattle itself has had between 500,000 - 600,000 people for decades. But they went loony in the early 70s when they thought they could end racial segregation by busing kids all over the city. Nope...the good folks simply left town to move to the other side of Lake Washington.

So there again you can see that liberalism is a mental disorder. Seattle has more dogs than it has children. They have ruined what used to be a nice city.

[hinckley buzzard]

what's the real deal?

Same as in FriscanSanto and in Old Europe. Liberal-socialists are sterile and impotent losers. Children are not part of their future, per God and Charles Darwin.