So get ready to welcome the nanny state right into your kids' bedrooms.
So, you were thinking of something else while you were typing this post ?
I’d have sold my baby brother into slavery to participate in a program like that over the time I spent in public schools. I loathed them after attending Catholic schools and got out as quickly as I could.
Already exists - Texas Tech University offers an accredited High School curriculum complete with diploma.
I think this could be revolutionary. This could open the door to online charter schools.
Talk about school choice! Great idea.
Too bad our govt is being run by statists who want control of every aspect of our lives from cradle to grave.
Change will come soon enough. The GOP will pull Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty folks into the big tent, and HOPEFULLY the GOP will reform their own ways as well. Then it’s “good bye statism!”
~SC
The substance (or lack thereof) of the course material is also a problem.
The “concern” about parents “not knowing how to teach” is an educrat canard.
Might work, if it weren’t for the Dept. of Education and the new Cyber Czar.
That in itself will teach her to be a lazy slug.
Something quite similar to what you are describing is already in use by elite gymnasts who do not attend regular high school.
Ignore the naysayers. Innovation scares them. Frankly, I think this is an idea whose time has come.
Placentia Unified School District (SoCal) allows
Home Schoolers to use their curriculum. It happens
to be good and it happens to teach the basics necessary
to pass the SAT. At the time I was involved, parents
had to agree to NOT teach religion or creationism or
some such nonsense. This of course does not stop a
parent from “adding” their own classes to their child’s
course of studies.
I can’t say if it’s online yet, but taking classes at
home (whether agendized or not) allows parents to filter
and correct revisionism. I’m OK with kids answering
questions on a test with the answer that is expected
as long as the student realizes their answer is not the
truth.
Your brilliant idea has already been done a looooonnnnngggg time ago plus it doesn’t solve the fundamental problem with public schooling - the curriculum is crap and the kids aren’t learning anything.
Even untrained parents providing homeschooling are outperforming government school indoctrinators because they aren’t teaching their children how to put a condom on a banana or why Billy has two mommies but focus, instead, on the skills their kids will need to be America’s leaders in the future.
If you want to homeschool, do it right, which means ZERO involvement with the government indoctrination camps (other than any notifications that may be required by law).
HSLDA will not represent anyone involved in these programs, as they are not real homeschooling, only "public school at home."
Lots of states have similar programs. They tend to be a way for the school district to kick out poorly behaving kids, then claim those kids are being “homeschooled” and use that to try to drive down the academic successes of true homeschoolers.
Not sure it’ll fill any niche. Homeschool families should be very wary; parents who don’t give a damn about their kids’ education aren’t going to supervise the education, and it’s still the lousy school curriculum that would be taught.
Besides, government schools are just babysitting facilities anyway so this would remove the one function they are performing as desired.
Texas Tech University already has a high-school program!
books and online access to teachers and mail in your assignments.
It was a great way to keep my daughter away from the bad influences in public school after she was released from Juvie. She got her GED and has turned into the nicest young lady. She has thanked me over and over for holding the line with her.
It's effectively a stay-at-home school that's funded as a public school.