One interpretation of the excess capacity is that the district has failed to provide adequate public schools and so the parents have gone private. SF K enrollment dropped by 50% one year during COVID among white parents, who disproportionately held both a dissatisfaction motive (being framed as white supremacists by the school board) and the financial ability to make the move.
Many school districts across the nation are recently under-enrolled. Hired-gun demographers working to make the case for closures say birth rates are declining (but they neglect to note the COVID bump). We looked, and we found the lost children - they're playing polo with Tarquin and Peregrine at private schools.
One interpretation of the excess capacity is that the district has failed to provide adequate public schools and so the parents have gone private. SF K enrollment dropped by 50% one year during COVID among white parents, who disproportionately held both a dissatisfaction motive (being framed as white supremacists by the school board) and the financial ability to make the move.
Many school districts across the nation are recently under-enrolled. Hired-gun demographers working to make the case for closures say birth rates are declining (but they neglect to note the COVID bump). We looked, and we found the lost children - they're playing polo with Tarquin and Peregrine at private schools.
https://stuart-reynolds.medium.com/bellevue-where-have-all-the-children-gone-4bcc0041f3a9