There are schools districts "offering" virtual classes to homeschoolers in their areas. I don't have the details offhand but I do remember it caused quite a discussion among the homeschooling families. Some parents signed up but there many others who wouldn't go near it with a ten foot pole.
MichelleO and are I are sending out kids to a
virtual charter school They use the K12 curriculum which is core knowledge based. The Dems and the Unions want it shut down of course. The school recently got dinged because they let children of different grades sit in the same room while taking Colorado's standardized tests. Like that makes it easier to cheat or something? Every grade has a different test, but they were eager to find any rule borken as an excuse to put the school on probation.
The lawmakers are also making a big deal about the "drop out" rate - the cirriculum is harder than a normal pulbic school, and because of this, kids who couldn't make it in a public and who try COVA, fail out, or don't move ahead as rapidly. . COVA is also willing to put a 6th grader into 2nd grade reading if the kid is at 2nd grade level, but then he shows little to "no improvment" on the 6th grade standardized test, even though he may be reading at the 4th grade level by the end of the year. O f course if the students stay with Cova for 2 years or more the success rates get a lot higher, drops out don't occur etc. But the Dems of course concentrate on the 1st year metrics, because they could care less about the kids, and even less that every single kid in our school is there because a parent decided they would be there. A lot of the kids are special ed too, so they are actually saving School districts money by not requiring them to provide special services and attention.
The school is still "public", so you don't have a bible class or anything, but I have yet to run across anything in the books, reading materials, history lessoons etc that would make my blood boil. If they kill the school, you can sill purchase the cirriclum directly from K12 ( before we enrolled we actually got the History course and tried it on my son - hell of a lot better than 3 liberal icon historical figures a year that he was getting in the public school)