When Janet Webber’s three youngest children head to school, they don’t meet up with the yellow buses rolling through their Cumming subdivision.
Instead Roni, the seventh-grader, spreads books across the kitchen table and logs onto the computer. Webber leads her other two children —- a first- and third-grader —- upstairs, to a sunny room with two desks, a laptop computer and bookcases filled with textbooks.
The three kids spend the next five hours or so completing lessons designed by the Georgia Virtual Academy. The online charter school started in 2007 and has quietly become one of the largest public schools in the state. It teaches about 4,400 elementary and middle school students from 163 of the state’s 180 school districts.
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Very interesting program. I imagine that kids who are taking online courses will always need a parent around to make sure they're keeping on task though. I doubt most school-aged children have the discipline to keep themselves from getting distracted when at home with all their games and toys, etc...
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