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Washington state’s biggest school district is considering shuttering some schools and laying off staff in the near future as enrollment rates continue to drop following the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Seattle Public Schools officials floated the idea of “consolidating” schools during a workshop reported on by The Seattle Times<\/a>. Funding for most school districts is tied to the number of <\/a>students<\/a>, so declines in enrollment will likely contribute to budget shortfalls.<\/a><\/p>\n

The city’s school system has lost more than 3,500 students since the pandemic and expects to lose another 3,000 by the 2025-2026 school year, according to data from the district<\/a>. If that happens, it will mark a 12.5% decrease in enrollment over six years.<\/p>\n

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It’s not entirely clear where students are going, said Jen Garrison Stuber of the Washington Homeschool Organization.<\/p>\n

Homeschooling rates in Washington nearly doubled at the height of the pandemic, according to state data<\/a>, and currently sit at about a 43% increase over the 2019-2020 school year. But in Seattle<\/a>, there are actually fewer registered homeschoolers than before the pandemic, Garrison Stuber said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I really think that what Seattle’s seeing, where those students have gone are either to private schools or they’ve left the school district and have moved elsewhere,” she said.<\/p>\n

Seattle could begin consolidating schools going into the fall of 2024, with rough estimates showing $28 million in savings, the Times reported.<\/p>\n

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In Oregon, Portland schools have seen an even larger exodus, losing about 8% of their students since 2019, according to The Oregonian<\/a>. Most of that decrease was at the elementary level<\/a>, but Portland Public Schools officials do not plan to close any schools, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

Garrison Stuber suspects a desire for stability is motivating some parents who have kept their children out of public schools post-pandemic.<\/p>\n

“A lot of [homeschool parents] said, ‘We don’t want the schools to pull the rug out from under us,'” she said.<\/p>\n

And as remote learning forced many parents to effectively take on homeschooling duties, Garrison Stuber said some families found joy in taking their children’s education into their own hands.<\/p>\n

“Homeschool’s dirty little secret: You end up really liking your kids,” she said. “They’re enthusiastic about what they’re getting into and the things that they’re learning.”<\/p>\n

Ebbing enrollment isn’t limited to blue states that had strict pandemic closures and restrictions \u2014 Texas officials are projecting a 2.2% decline<\/a> over the next four years, pointing to declining birth rates as the cause.<\/p>\n

Classroom politicization has also driven some parents to send their kids to private schools or educate them at home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I’m able to control what they learn, control the speed of which they learn so they learn at a much faster rate, and control outside influences as far as peer pressure, bullying, political agendas,” Texas mom Tara Carter told Fox News in September<\/a>, after pulling her young children from public school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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