@purpletitan, I am not conflating online with scale. I clearly said that online can be done well but people are wary of online credits because there are inherent difficulties with assessment if the classes are huge or not proctored. Not really interested in hearing you keep saying this to me.
My daughter took an online class at her high school. The quality of the curriculum and instruction was pretty bad. The teacher can’t keep an eye on the students online, so in order to ensure the kids were paying attention, there was an enormous amount of busywork. She didn’t receive a single comment on her work from the teacher. They never met. Moreover, the teacher had no idea whether the any of the work was actually done by her. I could have done all her assignments and the teacher wouldn’t have known. I think this was the worst class either one of my kids took in high school, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it was online. I’ve heard nothing but complaints from other parents whose kids took other online high school classes, some run by the school district, some by the state. Oh, just remembered, she took a second online class. The “teacher” was away on vacation for half of the class duration. No way to contact her with questions. Nice.