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[quote=Anonymous]I get it - there's a lot of push-back and nay-sayers and worry warts...  people don't like change, perfectly understandable.

Just look at what Stanford Online High School has done (here: https://ohs.stanford.edu/)

If you don't see that this (along with Khan Academy and many other MOOCs, distance learning, tutoring etc, etc) is the future, you will be blindsided.

In a school system like FCPS with huge pressures on spending, transportation, diversity of capabilities/interests/effort/expectations - the only foreseeable way to address all this and remain competitive is to evolve - get more efficient, offer more opportunities, reduce costs (transportation is a huge cost in FCPS - hundreds of millions of dollars each year), and improve outcomes.

If you don't believe me, ask your neighbor in a wealthy neighborhood - who after all, pay a disproportionate share of the property taxes that fund schools - whether they would pay $21,000/yr for a first rate MS/HS education at Stanford for 4-6 years vs. pay that amount in property taxes for the next thirty years.  They will move and enroll their kid in these online courses - that's the economic reality that is starting to happen now.  Or in the next referendum on 'school choice', they will partner with the No Meals Tax folks and vote for vouchers.

Home schooled kids in FFX grew from 1.3% of the total school population in 2006-7 to 1.84% in 2016-17.  In some ways, you could argue that's a good thing; it reduces students in classrooms and yet their parents still pay taxes.  But it also deprives classrooms of motivated, ambitious peers and it shows a lack of confidence and commitment to public schools.  We're looking for the increase in the number of students attending private/parochial schools - my guess is a much larger proportion of wealthier families are sending kids to private schools.  All good you say, but these influential people then don't have a commitment to public schools.

Public schools must adapt, innovate, compete and change - or decline.  [/quote]

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