by Lusk » Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:51 pm
LCCM INTERNET ACADEMY NOW MOST POPULAR PRIMARY SCHOOL IN COUNTRY
28 February 2859
AXMINSTER— The Lutheran Church of Central Macon, the religious arm of the Lusk apparatus and one-time official religion, announced today that its "Lutheran Internet Academy" is the most popular primary school system in the country. Unlike the LCCM's regular primary schools, the LIA is non-selective. Hutori has a unique confluence of laws that makes education mandatory, but does not provide any system of free, public education. Only Keymon has similar laws, and there the family-compound structure means that every child is more or less provided with free education. But in Hutori, as millions of low-income parents struggle to scrape together the money to send their children to school or face child-neglect charges, the LIA has proven a godsend. Available in both English and Dutch, the LIA educates seven million children. The four subjects of the LIA system, which employs no teachers and has everything graded by computer, are bilingual literacy, basic mathematics, theology, and Latin. "I'm not a big fan of the religion element," says Gertrude van der Waal, a Dutchophone mother of five from Throne and Altar, "but I can't afford to send all my children to private schools. Big education corporations like Royal Academies charge too much, and the local ones aren't very good. With the LIA, at least this way my children can try to apply to a Church secondary school, in addition to saving me money." The Lutheran Church of Central Macon also announced that it would be creating a free secondary school to be called the Lutheran Internet Preparatory School. LIPS will work on a similar, 100% automated model, although students are not expected to be eligible for admission to university.