More than a third of community college students have vanished in the United States

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“We are closing K-12 schools because enrollment is so much lower than it was 30 years ago.... and even lower than 50 years ago”


Where is this, and where are they going ? I understand that many districts have consolidated and built bigger schools to accommodate , but where is the decline in enrollment and why ?

I live in an area where school districts are consolidating or researching consolidation. Our population has decreased. There are far fewer children here than decades ago. People are having fewer kids today than 50+ years ago when the schools here were built. Here, every town has it's own school district which isn't cost effective today.

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Why pay for community college when one can watch some YouTube videos and learn the same thing? This doesn't apply to every subject, but there's a ton of info available online today from places such as YouTube, Coursera, edX, certifications, bootcamps, etc.