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Are schools necessary anymore?
"With the increased use of the internet in all aspects of our lives, are schools really necessary anymore? Would remote classroom environments work just as well?"
With the increased use of the internet in all aspects of our lives, are schools really necessary anymore? Would remote classroom environments work just as well?

The level at which a quality education over the interent has increased considerably over the past few years, it does not, however, consider the non-textbook related social learning that occurs in classroom situations. Most agree that attending school on a regular basis gives a child an opportunity to interact socially, teaching them skill they will need throughout their lives. At the same time, social development of children happens in all aspect of their lives, so everything is not learned within the confines of a school building. A mixture of both virtual online classrooms and schools seems to be the ideal solution. Perhaps a school could have a rotating student body where one half would be at home while the other is at school. This would ultimately save tax payers money and provide the necessary social interaction for our children.

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MDT thinks: Although having schools is an added cost to taxpayers, it's crucial to give young people the opportunity to develop social lives. As young people, it's important to have relationships with peers to develop socially and learn how to interact with different types of people. I would think this aspect is possibly more important at an early age than even the educational aspects of schooling.
Simpler thinks: Tools to enable remote learning can only be a supplement to real interaction, I think. Kids need the full bandwidth of real human interaction to understand all the social rules and unwritten codecs necessary to do well. They could not pick this up, if they were only accessing the school via a device at home.

As other discussions in this forum show, kids already have problems with getting away from their PCs and gaming devices. This would mean that they would stay in front of it all day.

It is a different story when used as a supplement to normal schools, e.g. when doing homework. Can also be used for kids that for some reason are unable to attend a normal, physical school.

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