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Originally Posted by pylon
My question is how far away are we from abolishing teachers altogether?
With the growth of and knowledge available on the internet, when will kids simply be taught from home. I was a horrible student that hated school. In the last 5 years of my life, as an adult, I have learned more than I did the previous 31 Just surfing topics that interested me.
I really think once you teach the kids the basic ABC's and 123's they almost could learn more efficiently on their own. Radical statement to make, but I think the "traditional" education model, may be in its golden age now.
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One, not sure you know what "golden age" means. I think you meant twilight.
Two, I've heard that the largest school in the city is the CBE's online school. But you have a point - one size fits all education isn't the most efficient way for everyone. But at what point is the onus on the individual if they can't learn in the publicly provided environment? There is a rather large service industry dedicated to providing alternate learning mechanisms - public services can't be expected to handled every situation.
I've heard the CBE lost a crap ton of money on the new headquarters - I'm sure this has a big part in the budget cuts. (absolutely no source on this, just rumor mill...)
Personally I can't figure out why school administration gets paid more then the teachers do. Teachers are the most vital cog in the entire machine and yet the higher ups get paid twice as much if not more. Administration should be kept to a tight leash with as much of the funding going towards actual education. Seems like there really isn't much competence in the organization if they have to be firing teachers - means the wheels fell off somewhere in the planning.