Public Schools Lose Million Customers

America’s underperforming public schools lost a staggering MILLION students during the pandemic & you wonder why the teachers unions are pulling no punches in getting taxpayer funding away from private schools?

The WSJ suggests it’s becoming a life and death struggle to keep some of the public schools open “because they don’t have enough pupils or funding to keep them open.” Put aside for just a moment the studies suggesting charter schools are producing more student achievement than their public counterparts, the newspaper story cites as examples how school boards around Denver, St. Paul & Oakland recently voted to close some schools in the wake of declining enrollment as well as that ever-present boogeyman, “financial strife”.

According to public school officials interviewed, “declining birthrates, a rise in home schooling and growing competition from private and charter schools are contributing to the decline in traditional public school enrollment.” But, what they don’t seem to recognize is that boogeyman, i.e., their own lack of success in educating their students may be driving those ex-customers to home schooling as well as private and charter schools.

Davd Soul