Asian-American and affluent parents are“quiet quitting” Seattle Public Schools, writes Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat.
Overall, enrollment fell from pre-pandemic levels by 13 percent among Asian students, 9 percent for whites, 5 percent for Blacks and 4 percent for Hispanics, state education data show. Middle- and high-income families left at twice the rate (10%) as low-income families. Elementary school enrollment is way down.
Westneat asked parents why they’re pulling their kids out. “Because the kids were at home we could see what they were working on, and we wanted more acceleration than that,” an Asian-American parent told him.
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