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To: kearnyirish2
Does anyone have any stories of a public school closing for lack of children? Seriously, anyone?

Yes, the elementary school that I attended. The demographics of the town changed and two of the seven elementary schools in town were closed. There are now a handful of single family homes where the school used to be.

64 posted on 12/24/2010 11:26:07 AM PST by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
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I find that incredible; in my area they were talking twenty years ago about closing schools. It never happened, and now they’ve built additions to the existing ones. The whole time, English became more & more rare on the street, on business signs, etc. That was our government’s solution; much of our way of life was built like a pyramid scheme, and when Americans didn’t provide the little students/consumers/taxpayers/workers, Social Security (and whole regions) ran into problems, and this is now the solution (and also why there is a de facto amnesty already in place).

What general area are you in?


66 posted on 12/24/2010 11:31:48 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: ELS

BTW, where do the children from the new homes go to school? Did the new homes replace large apartment buildings? In our area when they talked about developing part of the meadowlands with housing, the builders were going to be required to build a school with the new houses (thankfully it fell through; people got wind of the fact that the “new housing” was actually “low-income housing”).


67 posted on 12/24/2010 11:34:05 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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