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Research has shown that, while people in their 20s often leave rural communities, a higher percentage of young adults in their 30s choose rural communities, Schmitt-Wilson said. Still, most of the research on migration of young adults to rural communities focuses on "returners," or those choosing to move home to the community they were raised in, she added.
[...] The researchers found that while study participants were candid about challenges associated with life in rural areas of Montana—such as a lack of amenities and geographic and social isolation—they also highlighted a number of benefits.
"Those benefits included the quality of life they experience in their rural communities, including family-centered environments, low cost of living, unconditional support provided by community members, intergenerational friendships, increased sociability and unique opportunities for personal and professional growth available for young adults in rural communities," Schmitt-Wilson said.
If urban centers are in lockdown and their amenities are gone, would young people still choose city life or would places like rural Montana do?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 29 2020, @10:10PM (1 child)
I don't know what your experience of public school was, but mine was not interested in bringing out the best in the students but rather bludgeoning them into a very small box. that was out west. having served on the schoolboard in brooklyn for years, I can say with authority that they are even worse than that.
If we have a chance to teach our kids the wonder of creativity and STEM and becoming self-directed, we should jump at it. we can't let public school teachers stunt our children anymore.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday May 30 2020, @03:35AM
Home schooling has been an option for decades... we've taken that option off and on when public was worse than nothing, but... home is no substitute for peer learning. I can see how the midwest would be pretty hopeless in the public school department, but schoolboards are one of those nearly accessible political forums where, if you've got a stay at home mom (or dad) with a bit of excess time/energy, you really can start to make a difference. If you've got three or four good people with the time and energy to get elected to the schoolboard - well positioned around a county, you can actually take over and start to make major improvements.
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