Comments on: Where Have All the Children Gone?

By: darko

darko — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:09:49 +0000

Schools are only as good as parents’ commitment to making them good. Shipping your child to a school outside your cachement is every parents right, with the side effect of weakening the public school system further.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:48:24 +0000

This should not be a surprise to any education planner or infrastructure planner unless they’ve been living in a bubble for the last 15 years. How many friends or kids of parents do you know in their 30’s who either don’t have any kids, waiting to have kids into their late 30’s or early 40’s, or are only having 1 kid.

The behaviour of this age group has been a product of double income families, longer working hours, etc, etc.

What is really troubling is that these planners don’t get it. We don’t need more schools, and unless we can find more short term uses for schools with little enrollment I can understand why school districts will shut down more schools.

Teachers and employees won’t like this, but if we’re not creating more children then its hard to argue to keep schools open.

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By: mike

mike — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:40:07 +0000

try lobbying the government to stop creating housing bubbles with easy credit! it’s stealing from future generations