10k fewer students enrolled in Broward County Public Schools this year (homes, school districts)

[StarryKnight1]

Out in the local paper and other news outlets.

The county blames covid, but enrollment also fell in 2019 before covid, so the county is full of it. We all know the REAL reason: Broward public schools are mostly (with a few noted exceptions) trash.

[HeartofFlorida]

Originally Posted by MisterRice

Out in the local paper and other news outlets.

The county blames covid, but enrollment also fell in 2019 before covid, so the county is full of it. We all know the REAL reason: Broward public schools are mostly (with a few noted exceptions) trash.

Well, is enrollment up at area private schools? Has there been an increase in home schooling?

[floridarebel]

Back in the 90s to the early 2000s, Broward county schools added 10k students per year. Since the middle 2000s, student enrollment counts have been stagnant. Late 2000s saw major decline with the housing crash then numbers climbed back up starting in the 2010s decade but annual increases bounced around at level far below the 90s. A decrease started in the last several years and the current decrease is exasperated by covid now. More parents homeschooling their kids and lots of middle class folks moving out of Broward and south Florida all together.

Their school board has info on their website regarding student enrollment counts.

[louisejaffre]

We moved out of Broward and Florida this summer because of the schools and climate change. I was a teacher in Broward when we lived there and didn’t even make 50k base pay as a veteran teacher because most of my years were outside of the state (a disadvantage of their pay for performance plan). My husband basically subsidized my salary. I knew many teachers with second jobs. Do you really want your children’s teachers to have to go to a second job at night or on the weekends instead of creating engaging lesson plans? In the Chicago suburbs our kids go to a great elementary school school with an actual gymnasium, an art teacher, etc. with teachers who are paid enough to send their own kids to college. We’re actually paying less now that we don’t have to live in a gated community (the only way our kids could go to an okay school). There are great things about Broward SD but there needs to be more investment into the staff actually doing the work. You can’t not invest in teachers and students and then complain about the outcome.

[City Guy997S]

Originally Posted by MisterRice

Out in the local paper and other news outlets.

The county blames covid, but enrollment also fell in 2019 before covid, so the county is full of it. We all know the REAL reason: Broward public schools are mostly (with a few noted exceptions) trash.

I could agree with your statement..........but also consider 270K kids go to Broward public schools so the enrollment dip is only 3.7% of the total enrollment.

[StarryKnight1]

Originally Posted by City Guy997S

I could agree with your statement..........but also consider 270K kids go to Broward public schools so the enrollment dip is only 3.7% of the total enrollment.

BCPS is one of the largest school districts in the country, but that doesn’t mean the schools are of good quality. And indeed, with a few noted exceptions, they’re not.

[RowingFiend]

Doesn't surprise me. If I had kids I wouldn't want them anywhere near the left wing extremists who are in charge of BCPS. The Delta surge is OVER and has been for weeks, yet the little tyrants in charge of the public schools are still forcing little kids to wear snot-soaked rags all day long. It's child abuse in my opinion.