Your post made me laugh, I am sorry but I picture you are prob. one of those people who still have a land line, and a phone that only makes calls. Online schools are not all bad. Welcome to 2009. High schoolers can now go to school online. Stop living in the stone age...
You make several false accusations. I have never attended an online school myself, however I recognoze that online is a modality of education, and the descriptor of "good" as you describe it is a moral choice. I think you meant to imply a "quality" education.
Here is the first error " People who have a good education and the jobs to back it up, attend a real 4 year university." A student needs to look at the curriculum-whether its online or not. I remember in my first masters I didn't learn anything, but had to sit and listen to an old guy talk about how he would run the classroom. It's about the curriculum, NOT the modality of the instruction. You also realize that Grand Canyon is a physical traditional campus here in AZ, right? They have college kids on campus, and play against my son's college team.
"You get no hand on experience"-What are you referring to? Do you mean the pointless interaction as you pretend to listen to the professor relay life events or have to work in groups and particpate with classmates that are not as bright?
However, not all online schools are OK, you are correct, and I agree with you in regards to people taking responsibility and doing research on the classes.
However, don't make the accusation that just because a person doesnt want to do school the old school way, that it makes it less meaningful. Under that logic, you would never take a job where you work from home because it's not a "real job."