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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The county school districts goes back to when most of the south was pretty sparsely populated. Fairfax County didn’t start growing until the 1960s. Places that were rural or small townish in the 80s or even the 90s are now suburbs and exurbs, or even mid-size cities of their own, but they still retain the public service/school structure of a time when they had a much lower population. I grew up in the Midwest where all the cities and suburbs had their own city schools and governments, and you only had county-wide or regional schools in sparsely populated areas. [/quote]
Funny thing is, there are now lots of Rust Gelt small towns/counties that are now sparsely populated and it would make sense just to convert those school districts into one, county wide school district[/quote]

I think some places have somewhat changed their districts “up north” to combine 2 or more small cities, but there’s issues with that too. Each of those cities runs their own government with their own mayor and city council and police and fire and their own city library (that may or may not participate with the larger county library system), etc. So they usually just figure, why not keep their own school district even if it’s shrinking in size. Where I grew up they shut down an entire elementary school due to lack of enrollment and the building being in poor physical shape, and the students were easily absorbed into the city’s 3 other elementary schools. [/quote]

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