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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Online "Learning" Revisited - Perdaily.com

Online "Learning" Revisited - Perdaily.com

Online "Learning" Revisited

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Several days ago we did a post about the absurdity of LAUSD's latest proposal to do online learning as a way for students to make up credits in courses they have failed. While such an online program might have had possibilities, if it was fairly and honestly implemented, it did not take a genius or any precognitive abilities to know how LAUSD would implement such a program.

More important than continuing to point out the criminal manner in which LAUSD is run is to finally get teachers, students, and parents to understand that this incompetence will not be changed by continuing to talk about how LAUSD leadership cannot do anything right. Rather, the next step for us here at perdaily is to posit an alternative of good educational practices in dealing with our population of intentionally damaged students.

How many more of you out there can give a specific example about what we write about at perdaily like the