Reply #36: Is "virtual education" the same as "distance learning?"

[Sal Minella]

I don't know what "virtual education" is.

I do know that Branstad closed down dozens of employment offices, and replaced them with computer kiosks for people to use for job searches, supposedly.

So instead of a human being who can assess an applicant's job skills, and can explain what employment opportunities are available, the jobless person is presented with a damn computer, and is supposed to navigate his way through god-knows-what bureaucratese on-line to search for a job.

Makes me think that Terry may have a relative or two selling computers and/or computer kiosks, yanno?

I know he is against the closing of low-volume post offices, because he's the landlord of a bunch of the buildings they're housed in, and he likes the rent checks. Just a classy guy, overall.