{"id":3016,"date":"2010-10-20T06:22:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T10:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2010-10-20T06:22:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T10:22:52","slug":"morning-read-where-have-all-the-children-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/10\/20\/morning-read-where-have-all-the-children-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Where have all the children gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Gorman, managing editor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/section\/roughdraft\">Watertown Daily Times, has written a painful essay<\/a> about the steady decline of children in the North Country.<\/p>\n<p>He focuses on St. Lawrence County, where the number of kids in public schools has plummeted from 27,110 in the mid-1970s to the current level of 16,691.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The loss of 10,419 students equals today&#8217;s combined student census of  Brasher Falls, Canton, Clifton-Fine, Colton-Pierrepont, Edwards Knox,  Hammond, Harrisville, Hermon-DeKalb, Heuvelton, Lisbon,  Madrid-Waddington, Morristown, Norwood-Norfolk, Parishville-Hopkinton  and Potsdam.<\/p>\n<p>So what does it all mean? Well, who wants to wait another 20 years to find out?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously, communities without kids can&#8217;t survive.\u00a0 And this particular problem is epidemic across the North Country.\u00a0 (Gorman&#8217;s essay makes it abundantly clear that this isn&#8217;t just an Adirondack Park problem.)<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Will the region stabilize at a new, smaller normal after the industrial job cuts of the last couple of decades?<\/p>\n<p>Is the agonizing decline likely to continue?\u00a0 If so, what can we do about it?\u00a0 Comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Gorman, managing editor of the Watertown Daily Times, has written a painful essay about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}