Coming to a classroom soon

[kygorski]

I*'m not mad,You cant stop progress, good students will excell no matter where they are taught.But I think some of these new educators fail to take into consideration that NOT ALL STUDENTS ARE EQUALLY GIFTED. My wife and I both attended parochial schools, she for 10 yrs our children for 8 yrs, why? because of the quality of education they could recieve, both moral and acedemic.That school was NOT required to accept all students, and they had different standards of conduct to abide by. But my son teaches special ed students,who are in many cases main lined into regular class rooms,[no child left behind], can these special students benefit from video class rooms? maybe. My sister in law was also a teacher, as is a niece,both of them bemoan the course that education is headingteaching to the test is almost required, is that educating?Now what dj was talking about, tele-confereences is a great idea, it can and should cut down on costs, but still you have the seminars held in vegas or Miami, where not much is accomplished, except raising the cost of doing business.

[Tim_T]

I would rather my kids learn something from someone who has actually experienced the subject or someone who has a background focusing on the subject. I kind of like the idea as explained by Art.

My guess is that special needs students will be dealt with in a different manner.

Not sure what this has to do with the dumbing of America or white men being minorities though.