This Huge Charter School Can't Prove Its Students Are Doing Anything (HBO) 

Everything ECOT does happens online. Its students get a computer, a Wi-Fi connection, and access to classes they can take on their own time, and its teachers hold optional “live” class sessions.

I knew a friend who did the online charter school, he played video games all day and ended up working at Wal-Mart.

So, it's not that the idea is inherently bad, but the students are finding ways to exploit the system and the company does nothing about it. Figures, it's really hard to actually sit down and study by yourself by sheer force of will.

I live in Ohio, and this matter with ECOT has been in the news for quite a while. This video is a good summary, but there's been a lot more crap going on. For example, this "school" also used taxpayer money to pay for TV ads that talk about how the Big Bad State of Ohio is beating up on poor little innocent ECOT. I'm so pissed that some of the taxes that I've been paying to the state have been going to this joke of a "school." A whole lotta other people are pissed off as well.

I went to an online school for 3 semesters. I did more work, and only spent about 2 hours a day doing it. They just cut out all of the waste time, which is most of what traditional school is.

Maybe they cant prove they do anything, but I can prove we did absolutely nothing in public school.

One of my professors in college told me that he hated getting online and private school students in his class. He said they always seem to struggle more than public school kids because the schools they went to were focused on making the students happy (to keep enrollment up / keep money following in) rather than actually giving them an education.

My buddy enrolled in a online school after his sophomore year in High School. He ended up graduating 2 years early, its not that hard.

I went to ECOT in Ohio and they call you literally every day that you're absent- If you don't log in. Unless your parents just simply don't care about your absences then there's no way you're only logging in once every 28 days. I went to ECOT because of my social anxiety and my lack of being able to function in school settings, and it helped me a lot while I still did the same amount if not more work as traditional schooling in less amount of time. Also, most of the papers are downloadable documents, you don't have to be logged in to work on them. These numbers aren't measuring the amount of time students spend working while NOT logged in to the system. I would sometimes spend hours on papers and only THEN log into the class for a few minutes to submit everything and get the documents for the next week. I don't understand all the hate on ECOT, especially from people who simply don't understand how it works and clearly haven't looked into the system enough to see they're doing everything they can to get their students working and logging in.

that was entertaining to watch

The amount of time a student spends in class doesn't matter. What matters is their comprehension of the material. This arbitrary time requirement is bad for students.

This seems easy enough to prove. Just test the students.

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The way I’m graduating is these online classes. The classes are simple, if you do them. But with the time I had and the desperation there was for me to graduate with my class after the hell I went through this year that took me out of class - I can assure you it is very, very easy to find ways to cut corners or create shortcuts. What happened to me was not okay or simple, but the reality was: I was behind in credits. I couldn’t go back 6 months in time and save my baby or make a psychotic person leave me and my family alone, I had to keep going forward. Failing 7 classes, four of them core, makes it pretty impossible to graduate on time - except for these classes. The only reason I’m graduating with my class, going on to college, getting out of the town that houses my abuser, and moving on with my life well before my 18th birthday are these classes. I understand the issue here, I just can’t say much on it. I was blessed to come back and take these courses, these were my way out of here. I’m getting my diploma and never looking back.

So I take college classes online. Psychology for example. It is a 3 credit our class (meaning you attend the class for 3 hours every week if on campus). But, since it's online, it takes me less than 30 min per week to complete all of the work. I am still getting the same education and completing the same work. I'm just not wasting time in a physical class.

This video is weirdly cute and satisfying

this is idiotic...im for charter schools but any school that had so little engagement with class curriculum it would be severely scrutinized and financial funding should be reevaluated. Why should a charter school be any less scrutinized

This is like a vox video.

The sad thing is that this educator has a mentor ... and its still failing .. The system needs a lot of fixes.

I graduated from ecot. I was one of the students who did the once a month log ins. The work wasn't hard. Nor did I have to spend much time on there. Most of the time I could finish an entire subject of work in a day or two if I really buckled down. I can also tell you I love ecot. If it wasn't for ecot I would have dropped out and never gotten a diploma. Idk what point I'm really trying to make besides don't judge them to hard. They are just trying to help kids like me who where left behind by the school system.