We have an education system that is structurally modeled for the industrial revolution. There is no reason we can have online schools if not high school and under certainly at the undergraduate university level. All the subjects should have the best professors record giving their class - public library could proctor tests with current staff of libraries getting notrary republic certified. It would cost almost no money after the first year. A university education at no cost (maybe fee to take the tests so not waste peoples time) to any who can pass a very rigorous tests.
Lots of our current education system is just nationalized day care and a certain amount that isn't bad just have it be locally funded for the most part so kids can play sports that require school type resources.
I think some good lessons and geniue progess made in our civilization if we went to more people work at home and schooling at home. Not everyone but this one size fits all just makes it crappy for most. We can still have public schools they just won't be as crowded just like the roads.
Americans already work harder than anyone on the planet - maybe this can be used as an opportunity to work smarter in the future.
Plus I hate f*c*k*n* traffic!
There are a good number of graduate and undergraduate degree programs on line. Hamline Law School has an ABA accredited law school that is taught mostly on-line.
One can get a degree in many majors from the University of Maine, Augusta without going to a college campus.
Some science courses require labs-easy solution: require students to attend an intense lab course for a week or so each semester.
there are already testing centers nationwide, that provide tests for every thing from licensure up.
I saw a poll that 40% of parents are viewing home schooling more favorably. Home schooling is not for everyone, indeed not for most. The same with on-line classes at the college level. There will always be a place for institutionalized teaching.
Many of those in the lower third economically lack a sufficient internet connection to facilitate video classes. But home schooling will get a big boost in the fall as more middle class parents are able to work from home and they have now seen the lack of quality of a public school education. If group activities such as sports, band and theater get cut from the schools, they will have even less reason to send their kids to a public school.
So will home schooling in the fall increase by 40% or 400%? I haven’t a clue. But the school administrators will be even more surprised. They won’t see this coming until they start fall enrollments.
Turn all if over to the county departments of recreation. Why do we need very expensive government schools for this?
Even in the professions, most of the material is rote and changes little from year to year. Obviously, laboratory and clinical rotation experience require brick and mortar but the rest doesn't.
It shouldn't cost a quarter of a million to become a physician. With reliable credentialing of material mastered $25,000 is completely possible.