The inner ring school districts around Dallas are drawing up plans to close schools. In one suburban district, 23 schools are at 65% capacity or lower. A closer in district is closing 4 elementary schools next year that are operating below 60$ capacity. Even outer ring districts are showing declines in enrollment.
This seems to be happening from Japan to our west coast and into our east coast.
Even charter schools are often facing closing due to lack of students aka school age kids.
It is past time to reconsider, where “Do we really need schools or to go on line for education of all ages
Also, more seniors are not selling their current homes and are aging in place rather than selling their current home to down size or to move into a smaller home for the older generation.
I would love to sell my home and downsize. The issue is that in order to stay near my kids, I would net almost nothing from the sale and purchase. There are very few small houses a available.