. If the child is not advancing in school, by the middle of the year, through the report card you would know just how he is doing, then it is time to make changes in his life.

Put him in another school, private or Christian, or homeschool.

The final responsibility is on the parent, not the teacher. The parents are the ones who have invested the most time, love and discipline.

The parents know more about their child than any teacher who only has them for one or two years.

No one should allow a child to go through school bored, uninterested or lazy. They will grow up depending on the government to take care of them.

I agree, David. It serves no purpose to have the there taking up teachers’ time with discipline problems, etc that could be put to so much better use teaching kids who DO want to learn. When they are ready, we need to have something better available for them than PJC night school. There should be a test to see what they know in order to start them at the right level and then let them do it online I mean, hey, ALL teens love the internet, right? It would be a lot easier for them to do it if they didn’t have to sit in a class for hours or be in a room with kids who are way younger than they are.

(And my sympathies on the passing of your aunt.)

I wonder exactly what this means.
– Seat time could be time logged on. Just being logged on without doing anything doesn’t mean anything, though.
–Doing the work while logged off doesn’t mean it wasn’t done, either.
–Not paying teachers for trying to teach students who didn’t complete the course despite the best efforts of their virtual/real teacher doesn’t make sense as it was, I guess.

Still, it seems hopeful. It should provide more educational opportunities for more people.

Now if they can just include the ones who dropped out because they didn’t understand the value of an education but would like back in after they do come to understand, that would be a very good thing. It would also reduce the need to keep in school those who are just filling a seat while their minds are elsewhere.

Let ‘em roam until they’re ready then fill their minds with the wonders of the world–or at the very least the skills they need to earn a living.

David for meeting people’s needs
and determining what they are