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Cyber schools on the rise
Filed under: Gadgets
Although it is not
necessarily a new thing, I've found this
article from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Cyber schools are on the rise. According to the article, Pennsylvania has seen an increase of 10,000 for the number of students attending cyber schools in the past year.
Students that attend cyber schools have assignments with deadlines, book reports and tests, all done via computer.
The schools supply the students with all the computer essentials they need and even pay for an Internet connection. For those worried that the students might not get enough social interactions, the schools organize field trips for the students.
Personally, I have no intention of home (or cyber) schooling my children, but I'm glad to see that there are different options out there for others. Would you cyber school your children? Do you already do so?
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
5-01-2006 @ 6:29PM
Caitlin said...I think that's a nice option for when it's just not practical to do concurrent enrollment at a local college. My high school didn't have any elective options outside of art, French, band, agriculture, parenthood and "office/library skills". If Paul was stuck at my old high school and too young for concurrent enrollment, I'd sign him up for cyber classes in a heartbeat.
I almost dropped out of school at 16 rather than spend most of my senior year in "office skills" shredding paper or dragging a sack of flour around for the parenthood class. I would have loved to have the option of cyber classes to replace those pointless filler electives.
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5-01-2006 @ 6:44PM
margalit said...I have used cyberschooling (EPGY math) with my children in the past and it's worked extremely well. One of the options available to kids in our high school is a cyberschool program where the classwork can be done online and is highly individualized, and the other classes (languages, art and music, PE) are offered within the high school. I think it's great, especially for kids who have learning differences that schools just can't handle. For very gifted kids, or for kids with learning disabilities that are difficult to deal with in the regular classroom, this is an opportunity to have a regular social life with individualized instruction up to and including college level classes.
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5-01-2006 @ 10:59PM
Kira said...I homeschool my boys, and I started out with a cyber school. It doesn't work for me. I found it too restrictive. If you're going to have the school system tell you exactly what to do, why not let them do it and give yourself the time off?
That said, I have friends who use cyber schools and love it.
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