With the primary concern of public schools needing alternatives to their obvious failures, I don't e why they should at least try something like this.

My husband and I were public school teachers. I was home schooled growing up but open to every form of education. After teaching though, I realized that public schools are more for babysitting and making sure petty crime doesn't take place during the day when most people are off to work (my principal told me this and I agree). one idea my husband had was to have slightly larger classrooms, about 50 students, but have two teachers assigned to a classroom. One for teaching and one for walking the room and monitoring behavior.

Your idea seems to have a similar touch as his in that the actual educator shouldn't have to monitor behavior. I truly believe that this takes away from every child when Mrs. Smith has to stop teaching for any amount of time to speak to, write up, and send out Scumbag Steve...even if it's the first day. Forget that.

Your idea is at least good enough for a trial group. It certainly can't be worse than our traditional public schools and I think that there would be many homeschoolers who would benefit from the online conference classroom.