Comments on: Virtual Schools Could Get Logged Off

Online Education Has Sparked Debate On The Dollars And Sense Of Alternative Learning

[fizzal-2009]

For public schools private little business to help you save money for yourselves we can now send a picture around the world and have a doctor in China tell you what to do.

[paris1969]

If parents choose to take their children out of the public education system, then I think they should be willing to pay for their education. Why should taxpayers fund these people who refuse to participate in the public school system? To me it looks like another way for people to get public funds ... what is this ... welfare for the privileged?

[sjw1253]

I do not know if there is a perfect answer. My daughter has decided to home school my grandson and I can truly see the benefits. I wish that more children could get the great quality and enormous educational benefits from home schooling.

The problem is that the children that will lose are those who do not have parents capable of educating their own children. My thoughts are that if the parents so concerned for their children''s best education were to keep their children in public schools and become more involved - the public school systems would have a better chance of working.

I really resent when funds are taken from the public schools as there clearly needs to be better answers for the children who need it the most. Think about it - the better education the inner city children and kids from uneducated parents can get - the less likely they are to feel not worthy of good jobs and the less likely they are to turn to drug dealing and other criminal careers.

[denn034]

The liberal school system and the NEA don''t like the competition but, what are conservatives that don''t want their children liberally indoctrinated going to do without virtual online education. Those virtual online schools are just free enterprise in action. In the end, virtual online education gives kids that don''t attend public schools an educatiion they wouldn''t get otherwise. Leave those schools alone!

[vet999999]

spadeisspade - you are correct, but I will go one better. Why do we continue to spend billions of dollars for an educational system that does not work, no one support, no one believes in. If you were asked to pay for a car that the manufacturer delivered to you not running, would you pay for that?
Amazing.

[spadeisspade]

Why shouldn''t tax dollars go to fund home schooling? After all, these parents are paying taxes that are used for public schools that their children are not using. Why is the American public so hellbent on forcing parents to put their children into substandard public schools if there are alternative options that are so much better for their children?