ECOT owes more than $60 million

I respond to the Thursday Dispatch article "ECOT asks justices to block $60M payment." As a taxpayer,

I am always appalled that our money is going to online schools. One wonders who is doing the work, are the kids learning and where is the supervision?

When we read about an online school faking figures to get our tax money, which in one year came to $60 million, and that it is refusing to pay it back and taking the case to court, it only reinforces that there is no oversight on these schools. We now see an ad on the television and, of course, the person speaking does not have his facts correct and, again, the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow is using taxpayer money.

If this fraud has been going on several years, what is the actual monies ECOT owes taxpayers? Shouldn't we be investigating this also? The online school should be stopped until it pays back the taxpayers and closed down immediately.

I believe fraud in any school system, whether online or the brick and mortar, should be investigated and the people involved punished accordingly. This should have happened in the Columbus school system, where there was data-rigging, several years ago.

Online schools should be monitored constantly to ensure that the kids that are enrolled are getting a good education.

Standard rules have been set up to ensure the best education we can give our kids, who are the future of our country. Let's start seeing more oversight on all our schools.

More trade schools would be a great blessing, helping young people learn a skill. Let's make sure our kids have the correct tools for the future.

Carolene Fleshman Westerville