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[Gordon Fitch]

kelley:
> WILLIAM BENNETT FOUNDS ONLINE K12 SCHOOL
> Former Education Secretary William Bennett is founding an online private 
> K-12 school that will offer the kind of traditional schooling long espoused 
> by Bennett, including phonics, back-to-basics math and civics lessons....

Isn't "online" and "traditional" somewhat contradictory?  Or
are we in the realm of the postmodern?  Where's the authority
I remember so well from the slow agony of third-grade 
afternoons, the brutalities of recess, the sour milk in
the lunchbox?