Chris and I follow the growth in virtual public education fairly closely, and regularly include online teaching jobs generally at RatRaceRebellion.com and in our biweekly telework jobs bulletin. So a recent ad for a home-based high school guidance counselor (in Oregon) caught our eye.
But first, imagine what online public education can mean. Picture the impact on traffic (and smog) if school buses and parents didn't have to ferry so many kids to and from those big institutional boxes every day.
Picture the look on those kids' faces, if they didn't have to stand at bus stops as early as 6 AM, waiting for the privilege of sitting in jammed traffic and fouled air.
Picture a "bedroom community" (and just what is that, anyway? A place where bedrooms live?), where neighboring children might actually play outside together during the day, with their teleworking parents chatting and -- scary thought ahead! -- getting to know their neighbors.
But enough of these hallucinatory notions. Unless, of course, the price of gas goes up, and up, and up.... or global warming does start to be taken seriously... or telework, telelearning, tele-local-living migrate "above the fold" (of our tired, habit-tunneled eyes), and gain their merited place.
In the meantime, check out the home-based guidance counselor job -- Good onya, Oregon! -- right here and now.
Refutational footnote: No, I'm not advocating that kids not learn together. Just doing my part for productive dialogue, which we acutely need to accelerate!
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