[Regarding “ACS Commissions Enrollment and Capacity Study to Address Urgent Challenges” Nov. 29, Xpress:]
Why are the schools so underutilized? Could it be a curriculum problem?
— Barry Shoor
Asheville
Letter: What’s behind ACS enrollment drop?
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More likely that NIMBY empty nesters have pushed out the potential for young families with young kids to settle in Asheville.
Or that the TDA has oversold, which has led to the conversion of long term rentals to STRs…or that so many part-time residents taking up space don’t have children…and possibly that some families just choose not to live in a tourist town with so much focus on beer…
Could it be the woke and FAILING Asheville City Schoos system itself ? ? ? Hmm ?? Why yes it could …more reason for an ALL ONE system for equity, diversity and inclusion.
The ‘hot spot’ for me is Asheville High School. This is the most outrageous high school campus I have ever seen. AHS has capacity for even twice as many students. Asheville High should be the premiere high school in Western North Carolina. “But you do not understand. We have SILSA”. Oh, really ?! It is sickening!