Readers of a certain age may recall when school overcrowding was a big worry.

Throughout the 1990s, as the baby boomers became school parents — that is, as the millennials started flooding elementary schools across the country — students were moved into temporary classrooms erected on the playing field, and PTAs everywhere fretted about overpopulation on the local level.

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