Rural America's Schools Face the Constant Threat of Closure

Article: Educational Flight or Fight

Submission statement: This is a post about the difficulty rural schools are having in retaining qualified teachers as enrollment declines and small towns emptying out. Some interesting questions around what rural educators can do to keep their doors open and their students learning.

"The buses of Cody-Kilgore Unified Schools travel a combined 312 miles every day along quiet highways and country roads. And it's not just bus drivers who are hard to come by. Recruiting and retaining staff, convincing administrators to custodians to special-education teachers to come to Cody-Kilgore and to stay, is difficult across the board, as it is for most small schools in rural America. It's the lack of amenities. It's the loneliness. It's the feeling of being forgotten by a system that so often seems to prioritize the tribulations of the city. It's the constant threat of closure, of nonexistence."

Submitted July 16, 2019 at 02:42PM by ezassenhaus https://ift.tt/2jRIQc0