{"id":1490,"date":"2004-08-23T20:08:37","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T19:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/08\/23\/hey_is_this_a_good_idea"},"modified":"2004-08-23T20:08:37","modified_gmt":"2004-08-23T19:08:37","slug":"hey_is_this_a_good_idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/08\/23\/hey_is_this_a_good_idea","title":{"rendered":"Hey, is this a good idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/wales\/3590872.stm\">report on the BBC news site<\/a> that an &#8220;online school&#8221; is being set up in a small village in Wales, which will be a full school, with real lessons from real teachers over the net!  It would cost 165 pounds per month (1980 pounds per year, which at current exchange rates is $3581.62 per year).  The school, says the report, &#8220;would cater for students who are being schooled at home, whether through parental or personal choice, students who have been bullied, excluded, are disabled or are living overseas&#8221;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNow, I don&#8217;t remember getting much &#8220;personal choice&#8221; when I was at school &#8211; I went where I was told.  The organiser, Paul Daniell, says that a lot of children &#8220;don&#8217;t flourish and succeed as they should&#8221;, which is true.  The leader of the NUT (National Union of Teachers) in Wales, is quoted as saying that education is not just about &#8220;the student and knowledge&#8221; but about &#8220;socialising and interaction&#8221;.  Now, I know I could have done without the sort of socialising and interaction I had at school, and this is actually what a lot of Muslim parents fear for their own children.  Would any of you sign up for this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a report on the BBC news site that an &#8220;online school&#8221; is being set up in a small village in Wales, which will be a full school, with real lessons from real teachers&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-o2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}