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Here is why we are asking for more funding: a school of 1400 has about 400 kids choose virtual and 1000 stay traditional. Those 400 kids are required to be taught by a highly qualified teacher of record in the subject being taught. That teacher is *also* teaching a full 1/ https://twitter.com/SteveMacias/status/1293378865637675010
Schedule of traditional students ina classroom. But we cannot assign enough teachers to virtual sections to completely balance the classes to a reasonable level because *we still have 1000 kids in the bldg* who need to be taught by a licensed teacher. 2/
So we either wildly overfill the virtual classes (60+) or we overfill the traction all classes or we put the teachers with virtual sections on an extended contract to teach during their planning period or hire a licensed teacher to oversee *all 400 students* on virtual classes.
The first two will get us in trouble with the state. The last two will cost extra money. Pick your poison. This, of course, completely ignores the necessity of providing Spec Ed services or IDEA compliance on a virtual platform.
Private schools and home school credits or vouchers (same difference) are free from all of this. There is *no* accoutnability for either the use of the dollars by parents or the quality of education provided. A private school has no obligation to even have a qualified teacher
instruct the class. In five years I have worked in School Counseling, *not a single private or home school student has been able to pass a placement test in any subject to be awarded a credit in that subject.*
I will freely admit that I have awarded credit for three classes of Doctrine taught by “Bro. Jeb” at a fundamentalist Baptist homeschool network. I was feeling generous.
Neither homeschool or private Ed has any business asking for money from public ed funding until they’re willing to be subject to the same requirements that public ed is held. No accountability, no vouchers.
