Michigan approves online, off-campus courses for 12 school districts

Michigan approves online, off-campus courses for 12 school districts
"State education officials have given 11 school districts and one charter school permission to let some students take part or all of their required classes on line and off campus......
The Avondale district in Auburn Hills received its waiver last month.
Avondale Superintendent George Heitsch tells the Detroit Free Press the online classes offers struggling students 'a shot at catching up.'"

I sure hope there is more to this story.... or less.

I do have a few observations:

1. Do our school districts already have an on line class program set up? When did that happen?

2. Or is this going to be another new bureaucracy that must be funded, and staffed and started from scratch? At enormous cost?

3. As Avondale Superintendent Heitsch so eloquently stated "the online classes offers struggling students "a shot at catching up."

What! Moving "STRUGGLING" kids from the teacher assisted classroom to their own home computer gives them " a shot at catching up"? !!!!!!!!!!

4. If computers are the answer for struggling students, will there be reductions in teaching positions? (little joke there...)

5. What if the little strugglers don't have a computer? A nifty high-speed internet connection.... any freakin' self control to keep them on their algebra lesson instead of all-day porn!!!!!!

6. Who authorized this idiocy? Seriously, what are their names!

Our state is broke.

Our school systems are broke.

And total loons are running the asylums.