[Oshkalaboomboom]

Micro schools would also bust up the teacher's unions, which means unions will fight them to the death.

[Gene Eric]

Public unions must be outlawed.

[4Liberty]

+1 😀👍

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Puts me in mind of the consolidation craze that swept my home area in the sixties. My mother, a teacher, objected that each consolidation meant one school valedictorian each year instead of two (or three), ditto for class president, football team quarterback, and on and on.

I believe it was In Search of Excellence (Peters) which said that “Bad things start to happen when you get more than 500 to 1000 people in the same place.” Basically because no one knows everyone there.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

With small buildings, few faculty and staff members,...

...who would be left to fill out the 25 pounds of paperwork every week documenting school performance and compliance with lebenty zillion regulations and rules?

Simply not workable in this day and age. Nothing is more important than those reports that flow from every school in the state to the State Capitol to be assembled into huge binders that are then incorporated into 1,000 page summary reports that then flow to Washington DC.

[Deplorable American1776]

In Tampa, there is a school in an old 7-11.

[norwaypinesavage]

I've attended a couple of 'micro-schools'. The first was a two room country school - grades 1-6 on one side, and 7-8 on the other. The sliding wall between the two opened for all school events - like the CHRISTmas parties we had. I remember more from my two years there than any other school I attended.
1. I was given a science project to build a sling psychrometer for measuring humidity in the air. It taught me more about water vapor, air flow, evaporation, measurement, and science than any class I've ever taken. It likely lead me to become an engineer.
2. Every day the teacher would read a chapter of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Prairie" books. The entire room looked forward to this every day. It was my introduction to the history of our state, and was the only fun history class I ever took.
3. During recess we would often play games where everyone in the school participated. They were fun, and taught everyone about diversity - boys, girls, and ages 6 to 15 is about as diverse as you can get, even in todays days of imposed faux diversity.

The second was college. My first two years of college were in a town of 10,000 located a hundred miles or more from any other town that big. Classes were quite small. None of my classes was more 32 students, and many were much smaller than that. I was absolutely required to finish in four years since Viet Nam War restrictions limited a college deferment to four years. This meant I had to take Freshman Calculus in my first term. Knowing this, I carefully checked, and then rechecked every question on the math entrance exam as I took the test. After I got about a third of the way through the test, the moderator announced "time is up", and collected all the papers. Some how I had missed the part that this was a timed test.

I clearly flunked the test, and was assigned to the remedial math class. It started with addition, subtraction and multiplication. Division was too advanced. Resigned to this, I started my first day in the remedial math class. It started with "addition". About midway through the class, a knock was heard at the door, and the instructor went over and talked with the interloper. I was then told to leave the room, and follow her. She turned out to be the secretary to the head of the math department (who just happened to be someone I delivered newspapers to for five years). Maybe that was the reason, or maybe others had the same problem. Nevertheless, he explained to me that somehow my math test had been 'lost', and it was necessary for me to take it over.

I remembered the first third of the test so well that I answered those questions from memory. I completed the rest, and also had time to check the answers, and thus aced the test. The next day I was able to start the first day of Calculus, and so was able to complete my engineering degree in four years.

My life was obviously profoundly changed by 'micro-schools'. It's just too bad that few of todays students get similar opportunities.

[kalee]

My grandsons attend something similar. They call it a hybrid school because some of the students are homeschooled and only attend half days for foreign language, science, and maths. They also have full time students. Classes are small with multiple grades in the classroom. Students work at their own pace.
Our older grandson started last year in kindergarten but this year he is doing first, second, and third grade work in various subjects. We are well pleased with the school!

[WildHighlander57]

How are these small schools funded?

By school tax that goes to the local ISD?

Or by a combination of funds from students’ parents, local companies, and sales tax?

Check out the current situation in some states w.r.t school tax; it’s out the roof... see Texas for example (Katy does NOT need a 10 million dollar stadium).

[tbw2]

I know of several home schooling co-ops using this method. The parents use online schooling modules they trust or traditional textbooks at home, and then they take the kids two or three days a week to a central location to get P.E., music lessons, language lessons, and the over-rated “socialization”.
It sometimes shuts up liberals to say “my kid goes to X Academy” not saying it is a homeschooling co-op instead of “we’re homeschooled”.
If they ask further, you just say it is a small religious private school. And when they bring up “socialization” again, you know that they are truly biased ... how dare you not expose your kids to all kids of all races, income levels and levels of bad behavior!