So as a public high school teacher, do you consider the expansion of online education a good thing for you and other effective, public school teachers? Do you think that in a future educational system, good teachers such as yourself will still have teaching jobs, but that these jobs sill simply function differently than they used to? I know some public school teachers, and tons of private school teachers, including private Christian school teachers, fear that they will become completely unemployable if what the most ardent proponents of online education are saying is true.
There are great online programs that require teachers who are willing to use rigorous curricula. Quality, effective teachers will be required. These programs will be used by families that demand quality teachers.
There are really terrible programs like one in my county in which the “lessons” are assessed using mostly multiple choice tests. Each student in the course receives the exact same assessments, all of which are reused year after year. Because the assessments are multiple choice, it is impossible to know who is cheating.
So it comes down to school choice. Online programs that employ quality educators using effective curriculum will prosper, and those without will fail. However, in obama’s America he would never let the cream rise to the top so anything is certainly possible.