I believe a part aside from learning what is being taught in the classroom, students learn social skills. How to interact with peers and how to treat elders. When a student is kept at home to take online courses, that would be a lot like being homeschooled. The fun part, for me at least, about going to school was getting to see all my friends and make new friends.
This subject is very broad, there are many angles to argue from. Like in this case study, Michael needed the online courses because he did not have time to sit in class for 8 hours out of every day. Some students may benefit from online courses. But others may not, they may just think of it as a free be to not go to class. But even for students who would benefit from online courses being offered may not be able to be for the hefty tuition being asked for. I think that if the schools is entirely virtual than why would they need teachers, or as many teachers as now. They could use the teachers salaries to pay for online courses. If that happened, then teachers would lose their jobs.
I believe teachers are extremely necessary, one can't ask a computer when not understanding something. In my opinion, this world is depending on technology every day more and more, soon it may be out of our hands. What if the Virtual School crashes, then students will be without education until it can be fixed.
I do not think the government should require high schools to have online courses, as more and more schools try it out, if it is successful then maybe eventually it could be required, for some subjects. In my experience I adore being able to go to my teacher and ask as many questions as I would like until I understood the material. With an online course, you just can't do that.
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