Comments on: AHA Day 2: A disaster of biblical proportions.

By: “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!” « More or Less Bunk

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:02:57 +0000

[...] you didn’t recognize the “disaster of biblical proportions” reference in the last couple of posts, it was indeed from Ghostbusters. In the scene above, that awful man from the EPA turned [...]

By: A disaster of biblical proportions, ctd. « More or Less Bunk

A disaster of biblical proportions, ctd. « More or Less Bunk — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:45:08 +0000

[...] has no advantage other than convenience and still runs into the labor problem with online education that I mentioned yesterday). Otherwise, the new method of conveying historical information is inevitably going to involve a [...]

By: Jacki

Jacki — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:12:50 +0000

First time commenting, but I have been following your blog since grad school dragged me reluctantly out of Colorado. I just wanted to add that here in Michigan, a new study by the National Education Policy Center has found that only 27 percent of online schools met federal achievement standards in the last school year. That compares to about 51 percent at traditional schools. These statistics, of course, are based on K-12 but the ramifications for college education are obvious.

By: Jonathan Rees

Jonathan Rees — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:00:46 +0000

Leslie:

That’s funny because the Decameron reference was provoked by the effect of online education on we academics rather than our kids, but I certainly see your point too. My thoughts on Pueblo City Schools are deeply, deeply conflicted. I also think that charter schools are deeply immoral, but at the same time I don’t want to sacrifice my kid to my principles. I guess I’ll fight now, then answer that question if things ever really get that far.

By: Leslie M-B

Leslie M-B — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:25:45 +0000

Don’t get me started. Suffice it to say our state superintendent has an online Bachelor’s in something like weights and measures, and our legislature is full of public education-hating Republicans who propose things like doing away with kindergarten (already not mandatory in Idaho, by the way–we screw ‘em up early here).

I’m standing up and fighting, but if this whole issue isn’t solved by the time my kindergartner graduates from his crunchy K-8 school, yes, I will go all Decameron.