Replies

I know of a school district here in FL that has very successfully utilized computers for teaching students at risk of dropping out.

These students, and I have met some of them, did not have the option of homeschooling, but they hate the school environment with its emphasis on social cliques and popularity and the like.

At their own pace, they do the work assigned by the computer, they ask the computer questions and always get an answer, they do not feel the computer discriminates against them in any way (as they often felt hated by their teachers for whatever reasons), and, best of all, they usually hold paying jobs while they continue with this program - so they have interaction with people, but they are now earning money, which is something they hadn't thought about doing as a potential high school drop out.

I am all for computers reaching these kids and wqhoever else prefers a computer to a teacher for whatever reason. There is certainly no shortage of the kind of kids I have described above, who are turning around their lives, verses these same type of alienated kids who took a very different way out at Columbine High School.

BTW, my comment is not intended to imply homeschooling kids are alienated, as I do not believe that is the result if t he student's parents provide for certain activities in the community for the kids.

However, these at-risk kids I described, and met, did feel that way while in school. And, the Columbine killers certainly felt alienated as well.