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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is so not a problem. Why would it matter that APS is 4% down when it was up 38%? So, now it's up 34%. So?[/quote] Up 34%? Since when and over what time? A decade? Two? This was over the course of a year. That in and of itself isn’t the end, unless you are a newly hired and soon to be fired elementary school teacher. But typically kids don’t move into a school system. Who you get at K-1 slowly declines at 12. So best case growth has plateaued and maybe restarts in 5 years once these families starts having children. Oh but wait that is depressed too with declining birth rates. So 2020 starts the clock for every shrinking classes. Then if you look at 2040, which you should still care about, or at least any teachers, will your neighborhood still have a local school or will teachers have jobs. Maybe you and your friends in 20 years will be strong enough to survive. Districts in decline feel terminal long before their dead.[/quote]
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