They're doing it in my hometown and have already done it in Gary, Indiana. If I remember correctly, Gary has one public school remaining.
Recently, my hometown abandoned my old middle/highschool. They said that they couldn't justify the expense.
They built a new, central school which replaced three high schools and several middle schools in a really unpleasant part of the city. The solution was to bus the kids in. Then they announced that they don't have the money to operate busses. Now we have kids who are expected to walk 4+ miles to, and from school every day (in a Northern climate). Now they're cutting teachers, teacher's pay, and taking money out of the teacher's healthcare fund during contract negotiations. They're three months past the state deadline to finish. They have been through mediation twice, and the teachers filed, and we're awarded an unfair labor practice against the city for backing out of tentative agreements. The goal is to break the union and eliminate public schools so that they can teach kids about magic sky fairies, sugar candy mountain etc. rather than STEM, civics, how to accomplish basic things like doing taxes and navigating being an adult.
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