What happened to all of the educational channels?

[mrs.b]

Our cable and internet provider just came up with an "enhancement" to our contract that made us realize we watch very little actual television because most of it is junk. They're charging for bandwidth over 250gig and we realized we blow that out of the water every month because we stream nearly everything we watch. For the handful of shows we do like, it's so much nicer to watch them back-to-back on our own schedule rather than planning our evening around a network, or waiting a week to see what happens next.

It has us pricing out the front-end cost of pulling the trigger to dump cable entirely and moving to straight internet so we can pick and choose what's worthwhile without needing to channel-surf past the rest. It saves money out of our pockets and doesn't put money in the hands of channels that put out such classics as Toddlers in Tiaras, last night's Miley Cyrus trainwreck, and so many others that deserve our pity, not our attention span.