[geeks] geeks Digest, Vol 86, Issue 11

[Lionel Peterson]

On Jan 19, 2010, at 8:31 PM, wa2egp at att.net wrote:

> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:19:00PM +0000, wa2egp at att.net wrote:
>>>> Cyberschools only won't work as long as there are parents that  
>>>> don't
>>>> want to be highly involved.
>>>
>>> So what makes them different than regular schools beside the  
>>> technology?
>>
>> Failure of parental involvement is more immediate and obvious and  
>> it is
>> harder to ignore when it happens?
>
> Well, at least you have less group to blame it on.  :-)  Actually  
> two words
> could improve education tremendously.  The average parent, "Did you  
> do your
> homework?" Response, "Yeah" (Here it comes.) Parent, "Show me."  But  
> that
> would take time.

Agreed.

Lionel