Oh, sure, it's Louisiana, but Louisiana is currently being used as a laboratory experiment that will ultimately be used to destroy public education and thus democracy throughout the country, thanks to the prodding by "Democrats" Barack Obama and Arne Duncan.
Virtual education is where all of this is headed, with "outsourcing" of all teaching staff to India or China where they make pennies a day if this insanity isn't stopped in its tracks:
In every study I’ve seen, Virtual school students do worse than their demographic equivalents in physical settings. Virtual school classes have been known reported having in excess of 500 students per teacher. These schools are being offered to students of all grade levels (k thru 12). It is clear that these schools are money makers as in most states they earn a sizeable portion of the funding that goes to a traditional student (in Louisiana it ranges from 90% to 100% of MFP) with less than a tenth of the cost. Often these students withdraw and return to a traditional setting, but the virtual school gets to keep the entire funding for the year, and the traditional school has not only the uncompensated cost of the student to cover, but also takes a hit on their “scores” (in Louisiana it’s called an SPS or School Performance Score) as well as the additional cost of trying to get that student caught up. Many of these students enroll in virtual schools simply to dropout without getting hassled. They get a free computer and internet connection and never have to log into school or complete an assignment. This is especially true in Louisiana where virtual school operators are forbidden by the Louisiana State Department of Education from exiting students that stop logging in, or fail to ever log in.
Obama and Duncan cheer this shit on, which betrays their political party labels.
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