The Virtual Charter schools of for-profit K12 Inc. have been noted for high attrition, low test scores, low graduation rates, and high profits.
The corporation currently operates a virtual charter school in Georgia which is the largest “school” in the state but of course low-performing. Now it proposes to open another K-12 online charter that will eventually enroll 8,000 students. It will be career-focused, so even children in kindergarten can begin planning their careers.
Fortunately, even the charter advocates in Georgia are having second thoughts.
The staff of the State Charter Schools Commission is recommending the denial of Destinations Career Academy, which, if ultimately approved, would become the second largest public school in the state.
The petition is backed by K12 Inc., a publicly traded corporation with scores of online schools around the country. One of them, Georgia Cyber Academy, is this state’s largest public school. It is at risk of closure due to its history of poor academic performance. The company and the school’s board are embroiled in a contractual dispute following recent board decisions aimed at turning the school around. The board has reduced K12’s role in — and revenue from — the school.
Really, how much dysfunction and profiteering should one state tolerate?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The Georgia state university system is one of two state systems that signed on to Bill Gates’ Frontier Set for collaboration on higher ed curriculum and delivery. The other state is Tennessee.
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Gates is just another techno-p****, my husband’s words.
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which means not just more and more technology, but more and more technology programmed by those who sit in the privileged seats of Silicon Valley: Gates doesn’t just spread computers, he spreads the extremely dangerous computer virus attached to a repeatedly validated upper-middle-class dominant-culture male viewpoint
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With the aid of Saint Melinda, as she is portrayed by various publications, Town & Country, Oprah Magazine, AARP, Vanity Fair, and local newspapers (naming just a few). The Gates PR machine runs in overdrive.
If you want a wave of nausea read Oprah’s spin (May issue).
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if the Corporate Charter Industry keeps spawning Virtual Charter Schools, the day will come where there will be more virtual children than the actual number of children living in the United States.
For instance, by 2050:
The U.S. Census will report that the number of children in the United States age 5 to 18 is 100 million (this is a fast guestimate for example purposes)
Then, NCES.ed.gov reports 100-million children age 5 to 18 attend brick and mortar public schools. These numbers were verified multiple time to keep the public school honest.
The Corporate Charter School industry including brick and mortar and virtual charter school schools will report they have 100-million children age 5 to 18 attending their schools, but there will be no way to verify these claims.
If President Trump wins reelection in 2020, he will still be in office in 2050 even if he is dead and his preserved corpse is inside a glass coffin. Trump will tweet that the public schools are lying and he will cut all funds and shift all that money over to the Corporate Charter School Industry that his daughter Ivanka runs from her glass coffin.
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