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Originally Posted by
Flower http:///t/393788/27-dead-at-connecticut-elementary-school/140#post_3504466
Yes the horrible truth is that like it or not, our kids are the new targets. From little-hood to college students. I also would love to see the Leave it to Beaver days but that can't happen. Like I mentioned, it's time to evolve on how we educate our kids. The money spent on education can be adapted to fit the need of society. We pay for daycare, some with government help...just stretch that money instead for a stay at home teacher/babysitter...even just a supervisor to make sure the virtual system is used. Money can be saved on the upkeep of the public school buildings and supplies...and directed to a virtual school system.
I'm not saying that is the solution, just one idea. The point is we need to not put all our children at risk. The kids in City schools for example are exposed to gangs and drugs. To have virtual schooling would protect our kids if they were at home and supervised...safe from a mass attack, sheltered from the gang recruitment and drugs. Mass education just isn't working in America anymore, the schools are overcrowded. The kids don't respect the teachers, the teachers are getting to where they are at wits end. We are creating lunitics that think drugs and gangs are the solution to life problems and when they reach the breaking point...they kill. We already know that bullying is out of hand and kids are terrified to even attend school...it's time to change.
We can't get rid of the guns the nuts have, and taking them away from normal folks only means the crazies will be armed and the law abiding people will be stripped of self defense ...so that isn't the solution. The anti-gun folks are just using this tragidy for their anti-gun aganda. We need a real solution that takes our youth out of danger.
Tell that to the Aussie's:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2012/12/16/gun_control_after_connecticut_shooting_could_australia_s_laws_provide_a.html
With the economy the way it is, and the complete separation of classes these days, middle income families can't afford to "stretch their dollars" to have what would be a considered a luxury to stay home for the sake of educating your kids. There's also the cost of the technology required to support these types of classrooms. Video can take a nice chunk of bandwidth on not only a personal network, but that of a school's. If you wanted to teaching 500 kids in a "virtual classroom" all at once, your network costs alone would be $10,000 - $20,000/month to provide the large enough circuits to support all that video and voice traffic. Then there's the issue of supplying all the required computers to those lower income families that can't afford a computer, or the monthly cost for the network "pipe" needed to stream quality video from their homes. There's also the issue for the families that have different aged kids. How do you split up the time if you have three kids in school, and one is in 1st grade, another in 6th, and another in 9th? Three computers and spend $80/month for the bandwidth? The school district I'm in has 10 high schools alone. I think it supports something like 250,000 students across the district from Elementary to High School. Then there's the issue of extra-curricular activities. Will there no longer be swim teams, track, baseball, football, Cheer, Band, basketball.... I could go on, but you get the idea.
