Columbus City Schools is preparing to close more schools. Not because our neighborhoods disappeared. Not because Black children disappeared. Because the district has more buildings than students willing to attend them. Think about that. For decades, billions of tax dollars have flowed through Columbus City Schools. Graduation rates have been celebrated. Bond issues have been passed. Superintendents have come and gone. Yet today, entire school buildings are sitting half empty. Johnson Park Middle School is operating at just 60 percent capacity. Several other schools remain below the state's utilization threshold and could face closure or sale under Senate Bill 311. The question isn't which school closes next. The real question is, how did we get here? How did Black neighborhoods go from demanding better schools to watching neighborhood schools become too empty to keep open? Empty classrooms are not an accident. They are the result of years of declining enrollment, families losing confidence, students leaving the district, and leadership decisions that failed to reverse the trend. Closing another school may reduce expenses, but it does not solve the problem that created the empty seats in the first place. Until Columbus City Schools answers why families are walking away, this cycle will continue. The real crisis isn't the buildings. The real crisis is why so many classrooms no longer have children in them.