Online School Faces Expulsion
John Gartner,
Wired News,
Aug 27, 2002
What's missing in this article is what happened to the students in this disasterous $9 million experiment in a privately run online school, but I shudder at the thought. You may complain that publicly run school boards are inefficient, but they're never this bad. The school, Einstein Academy, "has always had a culture of anti-government and anti-bureaucracy, including failure to maintain accounting records or complete forms." Moreover, "Einstein could account for only 86 of 1,232 computers sent to students who later left the school, potentially costing taxpayers $690,000." And another company, Tutorbots, "routinely used Einstein teachers to develop coursework, and then billed Einstein for the work. Tutorbots' charges totaled 47 percent of Einstein's budget during its first six months of operation." Here's my advice: leave the management of school boards and schools to the professionals, not the shysters.
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