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Virtual High School lets kids go to school at home
November 16, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) – The Virtual High School lets kids go to school in the comfort of their own home. CCSD says this type of online learning could help the ailing graduation rate.
Instead of waking up early and rushing to class, 150 high schoolers get up when they feel like it and take their classes online.
“You get to eat breakfast, (you) don’t have to wake up super early and be afraid you’re going to miss the bus,” Dakota Schneider said.
Schneider is a junior at VHS. He went to Basic High School his freshmen year, but struggled.
“I noticed I couldn’t concentrate a lot with kids constantly tapping on desks, making noise.”
The shy student also worried about bullying, and says some of his friends were victims. Schneider researched VHS and gave it a try.
Dominique Quattrini is a Virtual High School senior.
She battled Hodgkin’s Lymphoma the summer before high school. After beating it she went to Silverado High School her freshman year. Quattrini relapsed the following summer and enrolled in virtual school from her hospital room, “For me, even though I was dealing with all the treatments, I wanted to – as best as I could – stay on track and finish.”
After beating cancer the second time, she almost went back to her traditional school but decided against it.
Despite the physical distance with online learning, students say they actually get more one on one time with their teachers.
“They’ll check in at least once a week and we have an instant messenger program so we can message them anytime they’re online and we need help. So, it’s definitely more personable here,” Quattrini said.
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Virtual High School: District program appears to be working
November 14, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment
Virtual High School is growing, the Review-Journal’s Trevon Milliard reported Sunday. The 7-year-old program has 12,000 students this year and a goal of enrolling 30,000 by next year.
For the vast majority of those students, online classes give them a chance to retake courses they’ve failed. For years, high school campuses have struggled to provide enough makeup classes to the students who need them. Putting these teens in classrooms before school, after school and during summers has proved inflexible and expensive.
Now more students are being encouraged to take such classes through Virtual High. The online format might seem impersonal, but it holds students and teachers plenty accountable. Students must motivate themselves to work through the material. Teachers are available via phone, email and text messaging, and they provide personal instruction for struggling students. Meanwhile, district administrators have the ability to log into any class at any time from their desks to verify progress.
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