Bingo. This is the answer. Online schools get the tax money and supply the laptops and remote teachers, the co-op supplies the building. Drop your kid off, they attend their online school, eat lunch, then you pick them up. Use the old teacher-classroom model and the kids are back to getting stuck with disruptive jerks all day.
When she was a public school 1st grade teacher, she did a value added vs non-value added analysis. Presented to the "new" principle, that the practices moving into Common Core were making that even worse (it was already very bad), and showed where they were really only "teaching" about 2 hours / day. The rest was BS, non-value added crap.
Point is, we can blow the doors off of public ed by producing true value added education. They even teach a class on the Constitution at this Co-op. Very cool.
Bingo. This is the answer. Online schools get the tax money and supply the laptops and remote teachers, the co-op supplies the building. Drop your kid off, they attend their online school, eat lunch, then you pick them up. Use the old teacher-classroom model and the kids are back to getting stuck with disruptive jerks all day.
When she was a public school 1st grade teacher, she did a value added vs non-value added analysis. Presented to the "new" principle, that the practices moving into Common Core were making that even worse (it was already very bad), and showed where they were really only "teaching" about 2 hours / day. The rest was BS, non-value added crap.
Point is, we can blow the doors off of public ed by producing true value added education. They even teach a class on the Constitution at this Co-op. Very cool.