I would gladly have a second child if it didn't take two adults with university degrees working full time to have the life that my parents had with a high school degree working part time.
Difficult decisions for school districts surely. Maybe these buildings could be adapted to other uses. Maybe they could become public: table tennis courts, gyms, performance venues, event centers, reading cafes, farmers markets?
On the one hand, the "adults are skipping out on their duty to spawn for our benefit" framing is really entitled and obnoxious.
OTOH, my impression from news stories and young parents I know is that large parts of the US Public Education-Industrial Complex really do have an attitude like that.
I didn't read anything remotely of that attitude in the article, just reporting on the fact that schools are closing because of the drop in birth rates.
I would gladly have a second child if it didn't take two adults with university degrees working full time to have the life that my parents had with a high school degree working part time.
Difficult decisions for school districts surely. Maybe these buildings could be adapted to other uses. Maybe they could become public: table tennis courts, gyms, performance venues, event centers, reading cafes, farmers markets?
On the one hand, the "adults are skipping out on their duty to spawn for our benefit" framing is really entitled and obnoxious.
OTOH, my impression from news stories and young parents I know is that large parts of the US Public Education-Industrial Complex really do have an attitude like that.
I didn't read anything remotely of that attitude in the article, just reporting on the fact that schools are closing because of the drop in birth rates.
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