Cyber Home-Schooling actually frees up kids to more interaction with their CHOSEN peers - to pursue possible post-adolescent interests, careers, etc, freeing them from the confines of some windbag spouting government mandated propaganda.

Social interaction as practiced in the public school system has resulted in 4 teacher arrests in the last month for student sexual abuse by teachers, three of which were in a one week period in Berks county. 

Star Shooter:: How very elitist of you... segregating children from real-world interaction is a sure way to have them grow up, like, well, Mitt Romney...

First of all, nice Romney deflection when you're lost for a lucid comment.

Second, I despise Romney, but will vote Anti-incumbent nevertheless.

Third, some very famous and successful Americans have been home-schooled ... among them, Venus and Serena Williams, Abraham Lincoln, Booker T Washington, CS Lewis, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pearl S. Buck, and Albert Einstein ... to name just a few.

Fourth, no further comment from you on the energy wasted on brick and mortars, transportation, oil, gas, disease, etc - but of course not, your only concern is keeping over-compensated teachers wallowing in their six-figure legalized corruption.

Fifth, no comment at all on the socially interactive pedophile teacher situation?

At 10:26 am on Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Nona wrote - "Child molesters never think they've done anything wrong. Sandusky will croak in prison. Good. He's left his victims in their own kind of prison."

Gee Nona ... is that the way you think of pedophile teachers also?

You stalking me, star tosser?

You might be accusing MOST teachers of being child molesters, I am quoting what has been rated as the 4th most Liberal online media feeds as stating "one in ten", which comes to 10% for you math-challenged union propagandists ... but hey, why worry if it's only 10% right??

According to Slate Magazine online, one in 10 students said they had been the victim of peeping in the locker room, and sexual touching or grabbing from a teacher or other school employee, and two-thirds of those reported the incident involved physical contact. If these numbers are representative of the student population nationwide, 4.5 million students currently in grades K-12 have suffered some form of sexual abuse by an educator, and more than 3 million have experienced sexual touching or assault.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2012/02/is_sexual_abuse_in_schools_very_common_.html

If you need the Berks County details, let me know, I have names, dates, and links ... nothing personal, I simply despise union hatred for right to work laws.

Truly bombshell reporting here, I think you've blown the cover on a huge news story! Oh, wait, those rates are the same as those found in the general population, less actually than that suffered by females on average. Maybe teachers are protecting some of these kids!

Show me your proof or at least a link of another specific occupation other than teachers where student molestation is over 10% ... oh yeah, you can't ... the whole reasoning here is get rid of brick and mortar schools, and you eliminate a minimum of 3 million teacher/student molestations.

Your statement that teachers are saving students from sexual abuse by not molesting them, is actually too pathetic for a response .. let me guess, you're a male teacher who thinks of himself as exactly such a savior.

You know what, maybe you're on to something. Tell me more about these cyber schools, how do they work? Who runs them? Who are the teachers? If you give me some good information I'll start spreading the word.

If you look at all the comments she's made on articles, she always manages to bring it back to child molestation. I think we've found our answer as to why she is such an angry and hateful person, clearly she has some first hand experience. We should feel sorry for her. Star Thrower, get yourself in for some serious counseling. All the online anger in the world is not going to make the terrible memories go away. Go direct that anger where it truly belongs.

Hee hee another WC Vote faux psychologist (BrynF sounds too much like Kaliner, with yet another screen name) trying to distance the teachers union (her main source of income) from the sexual abuse that's becoming a ever-growing thorn in their side - you girls are having a little problem, yes?? - have a look at this morning's DLN, and you will see yet another case of teacher/student sexual abuse nearby (in the news), this time in Coatesville ... 

http://www.dailylocal.com/article/20121017/NEWS01/121019650/coatesville-teacher-sentenced-in-case-involving-former-student

think about it .. 10% of teachers guilty of teacher/student sexual abuse is no laughing matter .. but of course you will have the WC Vote teachers association doing everything in their power to shoot the messenger ... doesn't matter the truth is still there, and the longer you allow parasitic abusers to have a place to practice their lecherous addictions, the more it will grow .. and don't get the idea that it's only male teachers, the berks county incidents involved 2 female teacher/abusers.

the only way to stop teacher/student sexual abuse, along with removing the extremely conducive atmosphere for bullying, and that is to start closing brick & mortar schools in favor of cyber home-schooling .. this along with the extreme waste of money on unnecessary transportation costs fuel & repair bills, unnecessary building upkeep retrofit, remodeling, maintenance etc

@Steve Maher:
PALCS is a non-profit cyber charter school, they are not making money, they live Unipay check to Unipay check.
Nice link. No where in this press release is there a statement from Truitt, no mention or statement that indicates that Truitt is against this transparency, nor does it report that Truitt was contacted for comment on this legislation. Why beat up on someone who isn't even mentioned? You have a serious problem dude.
And for the record, Truitt is FOR transparency.

Bored, while the school itself may be non-profit, the management companies that provide services to these schools certainly are not. They get paid huge salaries and other fees that make what teachers get paid look like peanuts. And the charter school lobby/Corbett have been pushing hard to make their records exempt from Right to Know. Don't know how Truitt feels about this, but I think his kids attend PALCS and his buddy Gwenne Alexander is on the board--no conflict of interest there!

In fact, I just saw a report on CNN this morning that said of the degree required professions, those in the field of education are the LOWEST paid. Now I know this is not Fox News so you may not believe it, but CNN did not conduct the study, they just reported it.

The reason teaching is the lowest paid of the (what YOU call) professions (actually it's not close to being a profession) is because any upper double-digit IQ'd doofus can easily qualify for that "PROFESSION" ... can you name any other authentic profession which has it's pay dictated by a law which threatens eviction if you do not pay their salary??? lol - you are some kidder twisted sister.

We are hoping for not just one school closing, but four ... after all it is a failed district which can not reach a simple AYP goal .. and it was Obama cutting the temporary stimulus who is responsible for your obsessive compulsive little girl whining .. grow up Maher

st once again you are delusional. WCASD is not a failed district and it is not a simple AYP goal. You are such a champion of cyber schools, so read the article in the link below. I cannot wait to read how you twist those facts around.

I don't believe you get the point of the topic, which is to explore closing a "BRICK & MORTAR" school - are you advocating closing a brick & mortar cyber school?

The other point which I believe has already been made is that there can be no teacher/student sexual abuse in a cyber school, not to mention the extreme waste of money on unnecessary transportation costs fuel & repair bills, unnecessary building upkeep retrofit, remodeling, maintenance etc. -

you seem to have a problem grasping these essential reasons for closing schools - the AYP failed schools were simply a beginning point .. I advocate closing ALL the brick & mortar schools eventually - when all B&M schools are closed, we will then be able to concentrate on pure learning, and rid the education world of the AYP system that causes unionists so much despair.

Hey, S....Thrower. What is with this "We are hoping for not just one school closing, but four...." nonsense. I do know that Maureen Snook, a WCASD board member is all for closing schools in the district. Does this mean that I have finally outed Star Thrower??

With Cyber .. kids have much more time to interact with peers of their own, as well as their parents choosing .. they also spend much less time clogging the roads with needless traffic ... that alone is a monumental gift to society when you think of the never-ending environmental damage caused by maintaining the archaic monuments dedicated to having our children's minds and bodies violated by depraved educators ... and of course there is also the pandemic issue which is once again making itself known in the news this morning, to which our children are unceasingly subjected.

I would be interested in what you seemingly think are appropriate social skills for children who are forced to be in dangerously close proximity to the very real threats I have mentioned. 

Nice also, to see you plagiarizing my words (a nice little trait you have picked up), against supporting failed schools, however it only makes sense to close the decayed brick & mortars first, while we concentrate on the more easily repairable cybers.

Lastly, hateful is such a subjective term these days ... another example of a meaningless placebo used exclusively by the non-creative among us, trying to validate a worthless life.

Snook?? please .. you spend a lot of time obsessing about my name, even while you hide like a sad little spawn trying desperately to become something ... lol

What you saw binder is a screen name which has no proof whatsoever of the slightest affiliation with a cyber school - what you saw is a person identical to yourself who claims many things, but has no proof of anything ... just opinions - yes, human interactions "CAN BE" the sweetness of life, but a teachers union has no interaction with life binder .. a teachers union exists separate from human life binder .. a teachers union separates its members from the rest of humanity binder .. a teachers union exists to bribe corrupt legislators, and to evict the poor from their homes, and use the foreclosure money to inflate their pension funds binder - lastly, a teachers union has a growing % of members (1 in 10 by a recent estimate) who are without question, sexual predators ... if this is your idea of the sweetness of life, chester county should take up a collection to get you help - its pretty obvious now that you are the multi-named ancient lemon dancer .. 7dPrincess - into the cheap wine again last night .. yes?

Take a look at yourself edufan .. begging to be name-called when there was actually none is pathetic - but happy to see that at least you two have confirmed the need for kids to be separated from the sexual predators masquerading as teachers .. let's see, you seem to have forgotten the absurdly imbecilic statement that you want to close Cyber brick and mortar schools .. you seem to have forgotten that the tax money you are whining about is supplied to you on the back of the private sector, while the illustrious education blob had borrowed the country into oblivion .. and now you would like your plagiaristic comments to be called citations ... lol .. hilarious!!

oxy, please take note that just because I am able to prove a "GANG of 3" bullies has jello where a brain should reside, does not make me a bully .. you are correct though, I do not live in west chester, I do however live in the WCASD, and I do pay taxes .. I see you have also quit taking your smart pills - are you Steve Maher's husband?