Posted on 02/12/2023 5:53:31 AM PST by ARGLOCKGUY
Kids in public schools are like soldiers on the beach in Dunkirk. Get them out!!!
I suspect most of the commentors did not read the article.
“Homeschooling rates in Washington nearly doubled at the height of the pandemic, according to state data, and currently sit at about a 43% increase over the 2019-2020 school year. But in Seattle, there are actually fewer registered homeschoolers than before the pandemic, Garrison Stuber said.
“I really think that what Seattle’s seeing, where those students have gone are either to private schools or they’ve left the school district and have moved elsewhere,” she said.”
Home schooling is not the issue in Seattle. It is family flight to the suburbs (probably along with smaller family sizes).
I am shoked that an article has a direct link to the raw data. Reporters/Editors hate doing that.
The tables on page 3 of this report shows exactly what I am referring to above. Everything but high school is down. The HS will see it in a couple of years.
https://www.seattleschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Section-1-w-ADA-Cover.pdf
Looking at their data, without know actual location of schools, it will be hard to close very many schools. All consolidation will happen at the elementary level as the Middle and HS are pretty stable in enrollment.
They will fire based on seniority
The only thing they can do to keep their friends who may not have enough seniority is move some staff into special Ed
I have been there and as a math teacher I had no chance
When I first moved to my neighborhood in 81 there was a grade school that was closed for many years. Then sometime in the 90s it was remodeled, opened again and has been operating ever since.
This is in a community 15 miles north of Seattle. Generation X is a small group and so likely it closed until a bigger population of kids came along. People were not having children in the 70s due to fear of war and civil unrest. Reagan in the 80s must have calmed their fears enough to begin procreating again.
No reason for people to have confidence now since leaders are deliberately destroying the country.
LOL!
This was an issue already when I lived in Seattle from 2004-2006. You never saw that many children anywhere in the city, and even the old High school on Queen Anne was converted to apartments. Ditto San Francisco which has had the smallest percentage of families with children of any large city since the 1980s.
True for a lot of higher education, especially graduate programs in the humanities.
Schools in eastern WA state are fine.
White flight perhaps?
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