Mullaney: student enrollment

isn't there a demographic reason? a general flux in the population (there are fewer kids of high school age; there are more kids of elementary age)
Allen agrees that it's a wave of the demographic projection
"people don't always make decisions that aren't always rational decisions"
just because you're paying for it and they're wearing uniforms, there's a thought that it will settle those kids down; it isn't the case
existence of school choice has made it very attractive to go to Wachusett, Auburn, and Shrewsbury (all of which have new high schools)
brings up football teams of surrounding communities and how many of those kids are from Worcester
losing parents whose kids don't make it into the Tech school (through school choice)