Your thoughts on Online Schooling

[Dragonlady]

I don't think anyone reasonable would suggest we go back to a time when women had few if any options in terms of their families and careers, but it is hard not to see how an economy based on one breadwinner and one homemaker had many benefits. However, that horse has long since left the barn, in very important ways for the best.

This is a the standard response of the right. We'd all be better off if the women would just stay home. The economy would contract if all of the women stayed home.

Having a "home maker" spouse has always been a luxury of the upper middle class or wealthy. Poor women have always gone out to work, they've never had a "choice". My mother stayed home to raise 6 children, but my parents didn't own a car until everyone was grown up and gone, except me. They raised chickens in the back yard, and grew most of what we ate in our back yard. People don't do that today. They don't have the property, and everyone now has two cars.

 

[Unkotare]

I don't think anyone reasonable would suggest we go back to a time when women had few if any options in terms of their families and careers, but it is hard not to see how an economy based on one breadwinner and one homemaker had many benefits. However, that horse has long since left the barn, in very important ways for the best.

This is a the standard response of the right. We'd all be better off if the women would just stay home. ...

I very specifically said that I am NOT suggesting a return to those days.

 

[Unkotare]

... The economy would contract if all of the women stayed home.

....

Not if the one breadwinner were more highly compensated, for which the market would adjust.

 

[Unkotare]

I don't think anyone reasonable would suggest we go back to a time when women had few if any options in terms of their families and careers, but it is hard not to see how an economy based on one breadwinner and one homemaker had many benefits. However, that horse has long since left the barn, in very important ways for the best.

This is a the standard response of the right. We'd all be better off if the women would just stay home. The economy would contract if all of the women stayed home.

Having a "home maker" spouse has always been a luxury of the upper middle class or wealthy. Poor women have always gone out to work, they've never had a "choice". My mother stayed home to raise 6 children, but my parents didn't own a car until everyone was grown up and gone, except me. They raised chickens in the back yard, and grew most of what we ate in our back yard. People don't do that today. They don't have the property, and everyone now has two cars.

Not everyone has two cars (what an illogical assumption), and there are still families today with one breadwinner and one homemaker (I never said each role had to be based on gender, btw) who are not wealthy. Your personal experiences do not represent the entire world.

 

[HaShev]

My son is dealing with online classes here in Indiana. Personally I think it makes a lot of sense. The two big knocks are younger students not getting routine and lessons they need in a school environment, and the lack of social contact that makes many home schooled kids awkward. Also, it would be a death blow to sports. My opinion is to have kids go to school through seventh grade, and then for the older kids, make it online. As for sports, I dearly love them, but I don't see why it is federally funded under 'education.' Sports options should be dealt with on a county or city basis. You don't need athletics to learn teamwork and effort. That is a ridiculous excuse for the funding of sports. Keep in mind, my dad was a teacher, and I played football, wrestled and was a swimmer, and I loved them all. I think online teaching for older kids could offer tremendous opportunities. I have found teacher quality declining at a steady rate, mostly because they do not get payed much and education changes every time the wind blows. How much do you think the department of education would fight this?

Shouldn't everyone get a property tax refund for the amount earmarked towards schools that is not being spent due to online schooling?
Especially annoying when you have no kids utilizing the schools you are paying for and the kids are still not educated enough to stand behind the 6' social distancing lines at Walmart.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

My son is dealing with online classes here in Indiana. Personally I think it makes a lot of sense. The two big knocks are younger students not getting routine and lessons they need in a school environment, and the lack of social contact that makes many home schooled kids awkward. Also, it would be a death blow to sports. My opinion is to have kids go to school through seventh grade, and then for the older kids, make it online. As for sports, I dearly love them, but I don't see why it is federally funded under 'education.' Sports options should be dealt with on a county or city basis. You don't need athletics to learn teamwork and effort. That is a ridiculous excuse for the funding of sports. Keep in mind, my dad was a teacher, and I played football, wrestled and was a swimmer, and I loved them all. I think online teaching for older kids could offer tremendous opportunities. I have found teacher quality declining at a steady rate, mostly because they do not get payed much and education changes every time the wind blows. How much do you think the department of education would fight this?

Shouldn't everyone get a property tax refund for the amount earmarked towards schools that is not being spent due to online schooling?
Especially annoying when you have no kids utilizing the schools you are paying for and the kids are still not educated enough to stand behind the 6' social distancing lines at Walmart.

What savings?

Social distancing is not taught in school and some people are just assholes.

 

[Pogo]

It will foster a lot more social awkwardness.

A big part of school is learning how to interact with other people.

The whole thing about the social awkwardness of home schooled kids is a myth.

Do you people really think that kids who are home schooled have no interaction with anyone but their parents?

Here's the thing. Kids who get homeschooled are weird. Homeschooling doesn't make them weird they already are weird and that's why they homeschool. If they were normal then they would go to public school.

I work with a guy who was homeschooled. He's a pretty cool guy. He has his shit together. Now it doesn't hurt that he's over 6 food and built like a brick shit house. That probably helped. But he's very sociable. Great communication skills.

you do realize you just contradicted yourself don't you?

There are always exceptions to the rule. Maybe his mom was bullied in elementary school and saw he himself was a bully. I don't know his whole story but I do know he was homeschooled. He says scheduled wierd. Instead of saying sceduled he says SHHHeduled. Do you say it skeduled or SCHeduled?

"Sheduled" is the standard pronunciation in British and Canadian English.

 

[RandomPoster]

It will foster a lot more social awkwardness.

A big part of school is learning how to interact with other people.

If every person on the planet was socially awkward, it would make the world a better place.

 

[Unkotare]

It will foster a lot more social awkwardness.

A big part of school is learning how to interact with other people.

If every person on the planet was socially awkward, it would make the world a better place.

Why?

 

[DGS49]

For the record, the one-earner, stay-at-home Mom is the IDEAL family structure for raising children. Two-earners is a COMPROMISE that most parents in America feel pressured to adopt, but no rational couple would even suggest that the parenting with Mother & Father both working full-time jobs is as good as one earner with a stay-at-home Mom.

The stay-at-home mom ensures that the kids get their homework done, get to their activities without undue hardship or waste of time, and keeps the household moving, so that they are not both scrambling every evening and all weekend long doing the things that should have been done during the week.

The biggest detriment of the two-worker household is the totally wasted time between the time when the kids get home from school and when the parents come home. And in fact, the parents are lucky if that time is only wasted, and not dedicated to getting in one form of trouble or another - I don't need to go into detail.

There is no more selfish thing that a mother can do than to keep working, just so they can "afford" a bigger house, a nicer SUV, and lavish vacations. Mothers don't have to leave home to fulfill their most important career obligation -raising good kids and good citizens.

As for the stay-at-home Dad, if economics determines that that's the way it MUST be (she's a physician and he is an unskilled laborer), then go for it. But dads simply do not do as good a job as mothers when it comes to nurturing a child through the school years. A Dad will tell a child, "Do your homework or I'll kick the shit out of you!" and a Mom will sit with the child and get it done properly. Big difference.

 

[Unkotare]

... A Dad will tell a child, "Do your homework or I'll kick the shit out of you!" and a Mom will sit with the child and get it done properly. Big difference.

Kind of an unfair generalization, don't you think?

 

[DGS49]

"Generalization" = usually true, sometimes false. Good enough for me. In fact, I don't know if I've ever even met a man who would sit with a child and work through an hour-long math assignment with a kid. I know I sure wouldn't. But most of the moms I know did this regularly.

 

[Unkotare]

"Generalization" = usually true, sometimes false. Good enough for me. In fact, I don't know if I've ever even met a man who would sit with a child and work through an hour-long math assignment with a kid. I know I sure wouldn't. But most of the moms I know did this regularly.

That is disgracefully illogical, and you really need to meet a better class of people. That was the stupidest post of the day by far.

 

[mgh80]

It's not as good as face to face teaching, there's no getting around that. However it's not terrible either. We can't evaluate how classes went this past quarter heading into the future because teachers, admin, district, parents, and students had minimal time to prepare and everything as thrown at the wall. Schools are much more prepared now.

With that said I want to be back in the classroom but only if it's safe. I was given one pack of 50 wipes (I have 150+ students per year-they wont last more than 3 hours) and that's it. That's literally my district's plan to keeping kids safe.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

It will foster a lot more social awkwardness.

A big part of school is learning how to interact with other people.

NOPE. FUCK that shit. All it does is get in the way.

Aww, who's a socially regressive wittle triggered Pogtard...aww!

Pogo was homeschooled and he's one smart cookie.

I only wish I'd been homeschooled, since I had done absolutely nothing to deserve that twelve years imprisonment. But it is fair to say everything I've learned has been in spite of that prison (certainly including social interaction) not at all because of it. Institutional schooling (school, as in fish, not as in education) is a robot-programming, cookie-cutting, socially poisoning, drone-developing creativity-crushing cesspool where human potential goes to die, decompose and draw metaphorical maggots.

So I guess to get back to the OP topic, if I had (a) child(ren) I'd absolutely want personal hands-on control of their education and would not want them anywhere near such an institution. It would just be cruel.

Seriously, the "school" environment has been quite successful for hundreds of years.

And yes, it does foster healthy interactivity with other people vs. living in a bubble.

Sorry Bubbles, the school environment hasn't even EXISTED for hundreds of years. That's where incuriosity takes you - to ignorance. Same place the school environment delivers you actually.

It will foster a lot more social awkwardness.

A big part of school is learning how to interact with other people.

NOPE. FUCK that shit. All it does is get in the way.

Aww, who's a socially regressive wittle triggered Pogtard...aww!

Pogo was homeschooled and he's one smart cookie.

I only wish I'd been homeschooled, since I had done absolutely nothing to deserve that twelve years imprisonment. But it is fair to say everything I've learned has been in spite of that prison (certainly including social interaction) not at all because of it. Institutional schooling (school, as in fish, not as in education) is a robot-programming, cookie-cutting, socially poisoning, drone-developing creativity-crushing cesspool where human potential goes to die, decompose and draw metaphorical maggots.

So I guess to get back to the OP topic, if I had (a) child(ren) I'd absolutely want personal hands-on control of their education and would not want them anywhere near such an institution. It would just be cruel.

Seriously, the "school" environment has been quite successful for hundreds of years.

And yes, it does foster healthy interactivity with other people vs. living in a bubble.

Sorry Bubbles, the school environment hasn't even EXISTED for hundreds of years. That's where incuriosity takes you - to ignorance. Same place the school environment delivers you actually.

Wrong! Onnkk!
"The concept of grouping students together in a centralized location for learning has existed since Classical antiquity. Formal schools have existed at least since ancient Greece (see Academy), ancient Rome (see Education in Ancient Rome) ancient India (see Gurukul), and ancient China (see History of education in China). The Byzantine Empire had an established schooling system beginning at the primary level. According to Traditions and Encounters, the founding of the primary education system began in 425 AD and.."

School - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It will foster a lot more social awkwardness.

A big part of school is learning how to interact with other people.

NOPE. FUCK that shit. All it does is get in the way.

Aww, who's a socially regressive wittle triggered Pogtard...aww!

Pogo was homeschooled and he's one smart cookie.

I only wish I'd been homeschooled, since I had done absolutely nothing to deserve that twelve years imprisonment. But it is fair to say everything I've learned has been in spite of that prison (certainly including social interaction) not at all because of it. Institutional schooling (school, as in fish, not as in education) is a robot-programming, cookie-cutting, socially poisoning, drone-developing creativity-crushing cesspool where human potential goes to die, decompose and draw metaphorical maggots.

So I guess to get back to the OP topic, if I had (a) child(ren) I'd absolutely want personal hands-on control of their education and would not want them anywhere near such an institution. It would just be cruel.

Seriously, the "school" environment has been quite successful for hundreds of years.

And yes, it does foster healthy interactivity with other people vs. living in a bubble.

Traditional high school does by necessity cram the same set of shoes on every student, whether or not they fit. When you've got 20 or more students entering your classroom every hour, you can't give them all the individual attention they could benefit from. I think teachers try. At least the ones that aren't burnt out by it all do. There will always be Pogo's who march to a different drummer and are frustrated by it.

Teachers take individual strengths and weakness, and varying learning styles into consideration. However, students are part of a class rather than personal ego-soothing sessions. This is not oppression. Do you think these students go out into the world and find jobs with companies that make everything about them individually? Hold their hands and make grilled cheese just like mommy did? There is a real world out there, and nobody gives a shit what sensitive little pogos feeeeeel. You do no one any favors by hiding reality from them.

Whelp, just look at it this way.

Between myself and your worthless ass, which one of us turned out to be a sociopathic dystopian contrarian asshole who intentionally names himself after excrement in a state of unfortunate viscosity?

Chew on that, Chuckles. And for fuck's sake wash your hands.

I had a better vocab than that in 6th grade. You made a false assertion and I proved it wrong just like scooping a handful of Pensacola beach sand and smearing it right into your sandy vag. SandyPogo!

Grabbed ya right by the pussy! With a handful of sand!

I respect Unko and the others' teacherness. Personally I think the Admiral is much crankier all the time.

I am crankier because I cannot abide by the education bashers who hate public schools because they couldn't hack it. The evidence in contained iv every illiterate, and illogical post they make.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

My son is dealing with online classes here in Indiana. Personally I think it makes a lot of sense. The two big knocks are younger students not getting routine and lessons they need in a school environment, and the lack of social contact that makes many home schooled kids awkward. Also, it would be a death blow to sports. My opinion is to have kids go to school through seventh grade, and then for the older kids, make it online. As for sports, I dearly love them, but I don't see why it is federally funded under 'education.' Sports options should be dealt with on a county or city basis. You don't need athletics to learn teamwork and effort. That is a ridiculous excuse for the funding of sports. Keep in mind, my dad was a teacher, and I played football, wrestled and was a swimmer, and I loved them all. I think online teaching for older kids could offer tremendous opportunities. I have found teacher quality declining at a steady rate, mostly because they do not get payed much and education changes every time the wind blows. How much do you think the department of education would fight this?

My daughter hates home schooling. Her 2 year old refuses to play quietly while his older sister has lessons and becomes disruptive and crash the lesson, closely followed by the family dog - a large standard poodle, when he's not chasing their cats. This is no way for my granddaughter to learn. She misses her friends, and both the social and competitive aspects of live classes, and the independence.

My daughter also says this is so unfair for her 2 year-old. As the second child, this was his opportunity to have one on one time with his mother, and he was enjoying having his own time with her, and his own activities with her. Even though all outside enrichment activities have been cancelled for now, home schooling is a bad idea.

It also leaves children without the experience of working in groups for projects, or learning to lead projects.

Thanks for the response. I'm sorry your daughter's kids have had bad experiences. I think E School is the future, and it looks like there is a lot to iron out. It doesn't have to be like home schooling at all. The kids can still go to school in their early years, and when they are older they can take advanced programming. This is the opposite of home school where the young kids stay home and then go to high school. For a teenager, I can see the benefits of incredibly advanced and specialized programs. It could open many new opportunities. It would be nice give them some hands on vocational training as well. Teach Johnny and Jill how to swing a hammer or fix their car. Nothing scarier than engineers who don't know what a hacksaw is.

You will see the people most invested in public brick and mortar will put up the most fight and tell you how it won't be as good. Of course they'll completely forget how the status quo now sucks and kids aren't getting a great education. The ones who do learn a lot are smart and can achieve on their own. They don't need a physical teacher and 29 other students in a classroom for them to learn.

And most of us just got by. We were allowed to just get by with little effort. Well it's hard to fool an online class. It doesn't care that you are a nice person. All it knows is you got 50 out of 100 right on the test today. And if you keep that up, you might have to repeat the class. Same way in college.

It's interesting how different I treated college when I was paying for it. I failed a couple classes early on and realized i would have to take the class again and pay for it. In highschool they just let you pass with a D. So for example I wasn't prepared in college to take the accounting class. My highschool accounting class didn't give a fuck if I understood or not. The teacher just passed me anyways.

Yes, there would be a lot to iron out but with the coronavirus we see that brick and mortar is not the most effective way and it's costing us a fortune. Parents should pay for their own kids schooling. If they want brick and mortar they can pay for private school.

Public schools such as we know them will be gone in less than 20 years. I can foresee greatly reduced facilities there to teach the entry level kids how to read, write and do basic math. After that I believe most of the upper grades will be online.

JO

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

My son is dealing with online classes here in Indiana. Personally I think it makes a lot of sense. The two big knocks are younger students not getting routine and lessons they need in a school environment, and the lack of social contact that makes many home schooled kids awkward. Also, it would be a death blow to sports. My opinion is to have kids go to school through seventh grade, and then for the older kids, make it online. As for sports, I dearly love them, but I don't see why it is federally funded under 'education.' Sports options should be dealt with on a county or city basis. You don't need athletics to learn teamwork and effort. That is a ridiculous excuse for the funding of sports. Keep in mind, my dad was a teacher, and I played football, wrestled and was a swimmer, and I loved them all. I think online teaching for older kids could offer tremendous opportunities. I have found teacher quality declining at a steady rate, mostly because they do not get payed much and education changes every time the wind blows. How much do you think the department of education would fight this?

My daughter hates home schooling. Her 2 year old refuses to play quietly while his older sister has lessons and becomes disruptive and crash the lesson, closely followed by the family dog - a large standard poodle, when he's not chasing their cats. This is no way for my granddaughter to learn. She misses her friends, and both the social and competitive aspects of live classes, and the independence.

My daughter also says this is so unfair for her 2 year-old. As the second child, this was his opportunity to have one on one time with his mother, and he was enjoying having his own time with her, and his own activities with her. Even though all outside enrichment activities have been cancelled for now, home schooling is a bad idea.

It also leaves children without the experience of working in groups for projects, or learning to lead projects.

Thanks for the response. I'm sorry your daughter's kids have had bad experiences. I think E School is the future, and it looks like there is a lot to iron out. It doesn't have to be like home schooling at all. The kids can still go to school in their early years, and when they are older they can take advanced programming. This is the opposite of home school where the young kids stay home and then go to high school. For a teenager, I can see the benefits of incredibly advanced and specialized programs. It could open many new opportunities. It would be nice give them some hands on vocational training as well. Teach Johnny and Jill how to swing a hammer or fix their car. Nothing scarier than engineers who don't know what a hacksaw is.

You will see the people most invested in public brick and mortar will put up the most fight and tell you how it won't be as good. Of course they'll completely forget how the status quo now sucks and kids aren't getting a great education. The ones who do learn a lot are smart and can achieve on their own. They don't need a physical teacher and 29 other students in a classroom for them to learn.

And most of us just got by. We were allowed to just get by with little effort. Well it's hard to fool an online class. It doesn't care that you are a nice person. All it knows is you got 50 out of 100 right on the test today. And if you keep that up, you might have to repeat the class. Same way in college.

It's interesting how different I treated college when I was paying for it. I failed a couple classes early on and realized i would have to take the class again and pay for it. In highschool they just let you pass with a D. So for example I wasn't prepared in college to take the accounting class. My highschool accounting class didn't give a fuck if I understood or not. The teacher just passed me anyways.

Yes, there would be a lot to iron out but with the coronavirus we see that brick and mortar is not the most effective way and it's costing us a fortune. Parents should pay for their own kids schooling. If they want brick and mortar they can pay for private school.

Public schools such as we know them will be gone in less than 20 years. I can foresee greatly reduced facilities there to teach the entry level kids how to read, write and do basic math. After that I believe most of the upper grades will be online.

JO

When I was an enrollment counselor at University of Phoenix every other school said the way we were teaching sucked. Meet 1 day a week and the rest is done remotely or online. Every other school trashed us. But guess what? We were so successful that they all started doing it. Now every school has online classes.

A lot of adults can't do the traditional school. They have to work. THey can't come to a 45 minute class at 10am 3 days a week and then a 1 1/2 hour class 2 days a week. The college schedule doesn't work for someone who works full time.

Well, online schooling is fine. Especially if you can't afford better. I'm sure MSU and Harvard will still have live classes but maybe a school like Eastern Michigan or Western Kentucky might have to go online. Or maybe because college is so unaffordable, a new regionally accredited school might come into existence where it's 100% online but only costs $5000 a year. I would love to see a school like that compete against the schools charging $20K plus a year.

Knowledge has unfortunately become a commodity and is held back by the higher learning institutions that produce such useless beings as Elizabeth Warren....

I earned an engineering degree with free books available online from Google...went for the peer testing and aced everything without so much as a single sit down class room....I did it all while working two jobs and supporting a family. I now head up a department that receives baccalaureat level trainees that I have to teach Trig and Calculus to....these guys are coming in the door and don't know shit. It's amazing...and what's even more amazing is how much money they have to set aside every month to pay their student loans.....I'm with you.....time to spread the knowledge! I go to bed every night with an old cell phone set to YOU TUBE and an ear piece listening to Math and Physics lectures to supplement what I know....this is not hard....it's the wave of the future.

JO

So you admit to stealing intellectual property? What are you Chinese?

 

[justoffal]

My son is dealing with online classes here in Indiana. Personally I think it makes a lot of sense. The two big knocks are younger students not getting routine and lessons they need in a school environment, and the lack of social contact that makes many home schooled kids awkward. Also, it would be a death blow to sports. My opinion is to have kids go to school through seventh grade, and then for the older kids, make it online. As for sports, I dearly love them, but I don't see why it is federally funded under 'education.' Sports options should be dealt with on a county or city basis. You don't need athletics to learn teamwork and effort. That is a ridiculous excuse for the funding of sports. Keep in mind, my dad was a teacher, and I played football, wrestled and was a swimmer, and I loved them all. I think online teaching for older kids could offer tremendous opportunities. I have found teacher quality declining at a steady rate, mostly because they do not get payed much and education changes every time the wind blows. How much do you think the department of education would fight this?

My daughter hates home schooling. Her 2 year old refuses to play quietly while his older sister has lessons and becomes disruptive and crash the lesson, closely followed by the family dog - a large standard poodle, when he's not chasing their cats. This is no way for my granddaughter to learn. She misses her friends, and both the social and competitive aspects of live classes, and the independence.

My daughter also says this is so unfair for her 2 year-old. As the second child, this was his opportunity to have one on one time with his mother, and he was enjoying having his own time with her, and his own activities with her. Even though all outside enrichment activities have been cancelled for now, home schooling is a bad idea.

It also leaves children without the experience of working in groups for projects, or learning to lead projects.

Thanks for the response. I'm sorry your daughter's kids have had bad experiences. I think E School is the future, and it looks like there is a lot to iron out. It doesn't have to be like home schooling at all. The kids can still go to school in their early years, and when they are older they can take advanced programming. This is the opposite of home school where the young kids stay home and then go to high school. For a teenager, I can see the benefits of incredibly advanced and specialized programs. It could open many new opportunities. It would be nice give them some hands on vocational training as well. Teach Johnny and Jill how to swing a hammer or fix their car. Nothing scarier than engineers who don't know what a hacksaw is.

You will see the people most invested in public brick and mortar will put up the most fight and tell you how it won't be as good. Of course they'll completely forget how the status quo now sucks and kids aren't getting a great education. The ones who do learn a lot are smart and can achieve on their own. They don't need a physical teacher and 29 other students in a classroom for them to learn.

And most of us just got by. We were allowed to just get by with little effort. Well it's hard to fool an online class. It doesn't care that you are a nice person. All it knows is you got 50 out of 100 right on the test today. And if you keep that up, you might have to repeat the class. Same way in college.

It's interesting how different I treated college when I was paying for it. I failed a couple classes early on and realized i would have to take the class again and pay for it. In highschool they just let you pass with a D. So for example I wasn't prepared in college to take the accounting class. My highschool accounting class didn't give a fuck if I understood or not. The teacher just passed me anyways.

Yes, there would be a lot to iron out but with the coronavirus we see that brick and mortar is not the most effective way and it's costing us a fortune. Parents should pay for their own kids schooling. If they want brick and mortar they can pay for private school.

Public schools such as we know them will be gone in less than 20 years. I can foresee greatly reduced facilities there to teach the entry level kids how to read, write and do basic math. After that I believe most of the upper grades will be online.

JO

When I was an enrollment counselor at University of Phoenix every other school said the way we were teaching sucked. Meet 1 day a week and the rest is done remotely or online. Every other school trashed us. But guess what? We were so successful that they all started doing it. Now every school has online classes.

A lot of adults can't do the traditional school. They have to work. THey can't come to a 45 minute class at 10am 3 days a week and then a 1 1/2 hour class 2 days a week. The college schedule doesn't work for someone who works full time.

Well, online schooling is fine. Especially if you can't afford better. I'm sure MSU and Harvard will still have live classes but maybe a school like Eastern Michigan or Western Kentucky might have to go online. Or maybe because college is so unaffordable, a new regionally accredited school might come into existence where it's 100% online but only costs $5000 a year. I would love to see a school like that compete against the schools charging $20K plus a year.

Knowledge has unfortunately become a commodity and is held back by the higher learning institutions that produce such useless beings as Elizabeth Warren....

I earned an engineering degree with free books available online from Google...went for the peer testing and aced everything without so much as a single sit down class room....I did it all while working two jobs and supporting a family. I now head up a department that receives baccalaureat level trainees that I have to teach Trig and Calculus to....these guys are coming in the door and don't know shit. It's amazing...and what's even more amazing is how much money they have to set aside every month to pay their student loans.....I'm with you.....time to spread the knowledge! I go to bed every night with an old cell phone set to YOU TUBE and an ear piece listening to Math and Physics lectures to supplement what I know....this is not hard....it's the wave of the future.

JO

So you admit to stealing intellectual property? What are you Chinese?

Yeah now that you mention it I suppose some people could see it that way.

Jo

 

[sealybobo]

It will foster a lot more social awkwardness.

A big part of school is learning how to interact with other people.

My nephew is going off to college dorms but taking online classes. He’s in a coed dorm. Lucky boy.

Online school is the future of public school. We pay way too much for public schools and it’s a joke how little they learn in 4 years.

In the old days teachers made $80k with a masters. In the future teachers will make $50k. $80 was ridiculous

 

[justoffal]

It will foster a lot more social awkwardness.

A big part of school is learning how to interact with other people.

My nephew is going off to college dorms but taking online classes. He’s in a coed dorm. Lucky boy.

Online school is the future of public school. We pay way too much for public schools and it’s a joke how little they learn in 4 years.

In the old days teachers made $80k with a masters. In the future teachers will make $50k. $80 was ridiculous

The richness and diversity available now online is definitely superior to the grist mills that have become the brick and mortar school system. There is no way any human instructor can match the capabilities of a well organized online course schedule. It just isn't possible.

JO