A Maine high school unable to fill a vacant teacher position has turned to a foreign language computer program to educate students.
With money already earmarked for the job, The Morning Sentinel reports Madison Area Memorial High School opted to purchase the Rosetta Stone program to serve as its full-time French and Spanish teacher.
Principal Jessica Ward says the situation isn’t perfect, but Rosetta Stone was the best option moving forward this year.
The school was forced to purchase the program, which is currently used in more than 4,000 schools nationwide, when no one applied.
Rosetta Stone officials say the program is ideally used in conjunction with a live teacher.
An education technician was hired to supervise the school’s students and administer the program.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Watch out, Teachers’ Union. If this works for this school, then more schools will follow. Many parents already home-school their children with the help of similar computer programs/aides.
The teachers that are out there now aren’t worth sheet. Why not use a computer?
GREAT ! No computer has ever stomped the American Flag. To hell with the leftist teacher’s union.
This is a great idea. Back in the 1960-70 I took all my advance education classes via correspondence schools that used the snail mail . These courses were electrical engineering, business administration, American Law and Procedure, and computer science. From these classes, I had a 55 year career in engineering, designed the computer supervisory control system for the countries largest privately owned gas and electric company ; Incorporated a corporation and ran it for some 15 years. From this, I was in the Who’s Who in America, The International Who’s Who of Intellectuals, Who’s Who in Business and industry, Who’s Who in Engineering, and Who’s Who in International Professional Tennis..
Expand this ALL foreign language classes alone, Yes.
Reduce labor costs alone
Or Teachers Union better get cracking NOW or lose.