{"id":69052,"date":"2026-03-16T07:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/many-us-adults-are-skipping-parenting-or-having-fewer-kids-and-its-forcing-schools-to-close\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:56:27","slug":"many-us-adults-are-skipping-parenting-or-having-fewer-kids-and-its-forcing-schools-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/many-us-adults-are-skipping-parenting-or-having-fewer-kids-and-its-forcing-schools-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Many US adults are skipping parenting or having fewer kids \u2013 and it\u2019s forcing schools to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the US birthrate has declined dramatically, schools are becoming emptier and districts are getting less public funding<\/p>\n<p>At a February board meeting for Memphis-Shelby county schools in Tennessee, a parent of five children who currently or formerly attended Ida B Wells Academy, an alternative education school, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ddIXucIB9_Q\">asked board members<\/a> a question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a high performing school. This is not a school in crisis,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I respectfully ask, why are we considering closing a school that is working?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/16\/birthrate-schools-closing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the US birthrate has declined dramatically, schools are becoming emptier and districts are getting less public funding At a February board meeting for Memphis-Shelby county schools in Tennessee, a parent of five children who currently or formerly attended Ida B Wells Academy, an alternative education school, asked board members a question. \u201cThis is a &#8230; <a title=\"Many US adults are skipping parenting or having fewer kids \u2013 and it\u2019s forcing schools to close\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/many-us-adults-are-skipping-parenting-or-having-fewer-kids-and-its-forcing-schools-to-close\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Many US adults are skipping parenting or having fewer kids \u2013 and it\u2019s forcing schools to close\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}