Submitted by frank w, Dec 16, 2007 08:55

Billions of dollars could be saved by doing away with the archaic public school system of huge buildings, thousands of buses and unionized teachers whose first priority is more money for themselves, by going to online education. Many, if not most students, could manage the kind of online schooling referred to in the article, even if they had to make an occassional appearance at a local school for testing or whatever. The huge and expensive to maintain public schools we now use as day care centers for k-12 in many cases, could be demolished and turned into parking lots or corn fields to grow more ethanol producing crops while at the same time saving billions of gallons of gas by doing away with the need for most of the polluting buses and their huge carbon footprints.

At the same time it would be distancing students from the dangers of sexual predator teachers, communicable diseases like MRSA, and criminal classmates who prey on the innocent. It's an idea whose time has come and the only thing standing in its way is the NEA and it's political henchmen.

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