Public School Enrollment is Declining. How in the . . .

[hadit]

they are reducing funding.

Where?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Are areas with large illegal populations seeing a drop in enrolment?

No, your administration’s illegals are crowding American students like sardines. As I said, it is the upper and middle middle class that are opting out of the disaster that public schools are becoming.

You didn’t read my OP very well. I wondered how it could be possible that enough parents are opting out to even outpace Harris’ surge of illegals.

 

[SweetSue92]

They have trannies reading stories to kindergarten kids in public school, that's one of the reasons.

A very minor one which my fellow conservatives have blown up terribly.

Meanwhile, we have allowed rampant terrible behavior to run our schools for too long. See my latest thread in education

 

[justoffal]

. . . fuck?

How do you lose your customer base, when you provide a service that is:

a) "Free." (no cost to the consumers and their family)
b) Mandatory,
and
c) Serves a demographic that is growing rapidly due to the influx of legalized illegal aliens, and the growth of welfare families, and whose defining trait is dependence on government, including the public schools?

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5090188/american-public-schools-face-an-existential-enrollment-crisis

I cannot imagine any other reason than that the service you provide absolutely sucks.

I say that as a public school teacher. My district provides very good service to our students, but that is because we have an apolitical school board that doesn't care about anything but teaching kids. Clearly other districts are not like mine.

It is only the solid middle class that makes the decision to withdraw their children and enroll them in private school. The wealthy, especially Democrats, already have carefully placed their kids away from the public schools. Now the middle class is making whatever sacrifice they have to in order to get their kids away from them. I suppose there are many parents who could never afford private school who "homeschool" their children.

Well, the left killed the Golden Goose with this one, but trying to suck every political advantage out the education of children to the point where parents are becoming convinced that there is no education, since it has been replaced with indoctrination.

Good Work, Democrats!

Precisely

 

[Unkotare]

Overall enrollment (obviously not evenly distributed) is declining because on a nationwide scale our population is becoming older and having fewer children.

 

[Blaster]

Republicans spend decades trying to destroy public schools and the middle class, and then ask how school enrollment can be dropping?

Declining enrollment has nothing to do with the Republican Party. Parents are not happy with their kids being indoctrinated instead of educated.

 

[Unkotare]

Overall enrollment (obviously not evenly distributed) is declining because on a nationwide scale our population is becoming older and having fewer children.

^

 

[Man With A Plan]

Republicans spend decades trying to destroy public schools and the middle class, and then ask how school enrollment can be dropping?

Dude...I hate to point out the painfully obvious but the left runs public education and have for quite some time! The teacher's unions overwhelmingly support Democrats and the Democrats they finance give them whatever they want. The result of that is we spend more money per student than any other industrialized nation and our kids are falling further and further behind the rest of the world in learning.

I blame Republicans for not reacting to this soon enough. We have two generations of young people now that don't have a clue about American values and what made this country great in the first place because we let liberals teach our kids.

 

[Unkotare]

Dude...I hate to point out the painfully obvious but the left runs public education and have for quite some time! The teacher's unions overwhelmingly support Democrats and the Democrats they finance give them whatever they want. ....

You realize the unions don't go into classrooms and dictate to teachers or make curricula, right? Yeah, they donate to democrat politicians whether members like it or not, but they don't write textbooks, they don't make some students have trauma, malnutrition, or crappy home circumstances. They don't make poverty or other social ills. They don't hire teachers or administrators. Stop looking for simple answers to complicated questions.

 

[Man With A Plan]

You realize the unions don't go into classrooms and dictate to teachers or make curricula, right? Yeah, they donate to democrat politicians whether members like it or not, but they don't write textbooks, they don't make some students have trauma, malnutrition, or crappy home circumstances. They don't make poverty or other social ills. They don't hire teachers or administrators. Stop looking for simple answers to complicated questions.

What do you think teacher's unions DO, Unkotare?

 

[Unkotare]

What do you think teacher's unions DO, Unkotare?

They are supposed to collectively bargain for their teacher's pay and working conditions, and that's about it. Dumping member's money on democrat politicians is malfeasance in my opinion.

 

[Man With A Plan]

They are supposed to collectively bargain for their teacher's pay and working conditions, and that's about it. Dumping member's money on democrat politicians is malfeasance in my opinion.

Ah yes..."working conditions"! So when the teacher's unions fought to keep schools closed how do you think that affected student learning, Unk?

 

[Man With A Plan]

They are supposed to collectively bargain for their teacher's pay and working conditions, and that's about it. Dumping member's money on democrat politicians is malfeasance in my opinion.

How can dumping member's money on politicians be "malfeasance" by the teacher's unions when those same politicians turn around and vote for pay increases for teachers? It's malfeasance by the politicians...but let's be honest...they're bought and paid for. Neither they nor the teacher's unions really could care less about whether kid's are learning. It's about power for both.

 

[Unkotare]

Ah yes..."working conditions"! So when the teacher's unions fought to keep schools closed how do you think that affected student learning, Unk?

We now know it was a disaster.

 

[Unkotare]

...those same politicians turn around and vote for pay increases for teachers? ...

That's not how teacher pay is determined.

 

[Unkotare]

... Neither they nor the teacher's unions really could care less about whether kid's are learning. ...

Maybe the union bigwigs once corrupted, but the rank and file members are teachers and care very much about the welfare of students.

 

[Seymour Flops]

We now know it was a disaster.

Why do you think conservatives knew it the whole time? Why do you think Trump supporters in particular spoke out against it from the very beginning?

Did we have crystal balls?

 

[Unkotare]

Why do you think conservatives knew it the whole time? ...

Not all did. There was a lot of uncertainty at the start of the whole thing. I would have preferred to continue going to school, but if the schools were closed there wouldn't have been a lot to do. Most families wouldn't have sent their kids to school if they were open anyway. Families were pretty scared. Media hysteria didn't help. Eventually we had this weird hybrid where the teachers went to school but the students were still at home on their laptops. The whole thing was a big mess that many kids are still recovering from.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Not all did.

How are the ones that did know able to be so correct when the whole establishment elite was telling them that this was a good idea?

Just like Trump supporters knew that ivermectin was a good way to combat Covid!

Just like Trump supporters knew that the price of gas would skyrocket if Biden won the election.

One thing we didn’t predict was the Harris Biden skyrocketing inflation. The dollar has been so strong for so long, that I guess we just thought not even those two lunatics could screw that part up.

 

[Unkotare]

How are the ones that did know able to be so correct when the whole establishment elite was telling them that this was a good idea?

Just like Trump supporters knew that ivermectin was a good way to combat Covid!

Just like Trump supporters knew that the price of gas would skyrocket if Biden won the election.

One thing we didn’t predict was the Harris Biden skyrocketing inflation. The dollar has been so strong for so long, that I guess we just thought not even those two lunatics could screw that part up.

If you're asking me why the democrats and their media partners are so stupid and duplicitous, you'll have to look at their entire dirty history.