Last year, something extraordinary happenned, state enrollment dropped sharply by 54,000 students. It plunged 6% (almost the size of Seattle Public Schools). This is not usually observed except in districts that were affected by a natural disaster.

OSPI officials were warned about increasing dropout rates and the possibility of increasing teenage violence, pregnancies, and drug abuse. It is hard to say if their stupidity was not done deliberately. Southeast Seattle school closures being one of the latest travesties done to marginalized families.

Washington schools created not only a large chasm between failures and college-bound students, but lowered achievement for all groups of students. (e.g. about 50% of college freshmen are now taking remedial classes)

Thanks to Bergeson, lawmakers created a bureaucratic monster that succeeded in resegregating communities, increased the costs of educating students tenfold, and established an academic floor for high school at around 5th grade.

The issue should not be about what students do with math once they are adults, but what schools do to students once they fail at math. Bergeson has no more excuses. Her ouster has to do with social justice, not the WASL. I hope voters congradulate their elected representatives at the polls, I sure did.