virtual children part 2

virtual children part 2

fiction
edward w pritchard

see virtual children part 1 Jan blog same author

Education of virtual children
Teachers unions benefited from the rapid growth in American families choosing to have virtual children rather than flesh and blood children. Of course no virtual child could be educated by a non union teacher. That was to insure each virtual child received a uniform equal education along with all other children. Related to that was standardized testing for virtual children. Since virtual children had less distraction in their lives than biological children minimum standardized test scores were raised 20% to pass the State minimum in all subjects to obtain a competent rating. Of course there is the usual clamor that virtual children in wealthier districts receive more than equal treatment than their poorer peers. Additionally studies have shown that wealthier virtual students tend to receive more personal freedom in their schools and more importantly are subject to less "big brother" type visual inspection and observation than their poorer peers but more research is needed to collaborate this conclusion. [ See The difference between Illinois State Prison 1953 and Salem Junior High 2015 same author March blog]

Athletics
A hotly contested topic in virtual children revolves around steroid use. The subject of virtual steroids is complicated by the fact that there is little agreement on a definition of enhanced performance in virtual activities. Suffice to say this is an area that will continue to be controversial.

Health Care
Nearly 45% of virtual children have no health care, a shocking statistic to those who are employed in the lucrative per profit delivery of health care government subsidized services. The health care providers and insurance industries have been lobbying for State mandated minimum coverage of all virtual children. The ideal payer for the uninsured virtual youths look to be citizens without virtual children, and of course the elderly.

Housing
Virtual children are skewing the housing numbers causing confusion in government weekly and monthly indexes. A revision for births and deaths of virtual children is being investigated.

Retirement
How will virtual children ever retire with two houses, two large cars and and how will they spend their golden years if they have to worry about money, sickness, and Chinese workers taking their opportunities and ruining their peace of mind? That is the virtual issue for the next 101 years.

Virtual Children themselves
They are loud, aggressive, rude, disrespectful, lazy, irreverent and smart mouthed. Alarmingly, virtual American children are already falling behind oriental children in Math and Science.