Before we add positions we must ask if we have the funding and if not, where will the funding come from?  If TELE-conference why not have parents participate if supervision is deemed essential?  Maybe I don't undertstand fully but if it's accesible via computer screen then more than one person can be at each end.  It shouldn't have to cost tax payer $ when we're in an already crazy-bad economy due to poor leadership on all levels AND we have such a shortage of teachers anyway.  This sounds like one mom who wants a babysitter for her kid's tele-class.  If I'm wrong, pardon.  If I'm right, none of us deserve/have earned special treatment or favor.