WHAT ARE CYBER OR ONLINE HIGH SCHOOLS AND ARE THEY RIGHT FOR YOU HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT?

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Some cyber programs are state funded, some are private or charter regional schools and some are national.

Online education, virtual school, e-learning, distance learning … all these new terms arrived when the personal computer hooked to phone lines in households literally all over the world.  The Internet was initially a college information sharing resource so it’s no wonder learning over your computer was the natural next step.  College courses online are fairly common now. University Distance Learning was in place in the 60s and 70s. Actually online associations boast of distance learning as early as the 1920s.

        Homeschool parents have known about these alternatives for some time, and some of the online curriculum developed because of the explosion of homeschool needs. It’s truly the wild west right, now but an educational trend that will soon be commonplace everywhere.  Public schools, as hard as they've tried to keep pace with our competitive lifestyle, are bursting at the seams, sometimes not conducive to learning and under massive pressure to deliver more and more with less and less.

       Private elementary and high schools and alternative schools for students with learning disabilities can be upwards of $20,000 a year and tuition continues to skyrocket.  What's developed out of that trend and trouble with big city public schools has been homeschooling, parents who feel overwhelmed by testing and school bullying and pressure.

       Homeschooling works great when one parent can stay home full or part time, but learning to be a teacher and finding curriculum is daunting.

      That's what prompted this rise in the availability of cyber schools  

and online learning and as the disenchantment with our educational system continues, so will our options for home learning of all kinds.

   Cyber school or distance learning won’t replace a brick and mortar school, but soon it will stand alongside traditional school as an alternative for students. But at this point … and let’s get this disclaimer out of the way immediately .. buyer beware when it’s comes to picking an online school. That's because this is uncharted territory for those starting and administrating the online elementary and secondary schools, and even with the best intentions they run into problems they didn't foresee.  In Pennsylvania for instance, school districts are fighting cyber charter schools with everything they've got, including refusing to pay the cyber charter school bill for particular children. That causes obvious funding issues with the struggling schools and some of them have disappeared during this battle between the legislature, school districts and the new cyber charter school industry. Before you make that huge decision in your child's future, do your homework. On the links page of this website you can find many resources to help you make an informed choice.

    This isn’t a website promoting elementary or high school education online.  It’s a website to provide information on a new way for your children to learn that many people have never heard of, unless you live in a state (like Pennsylvania) that is paving the way in Cyber Charter Education.  Most parents out there .... fit to be tied over too much homework, No Child Left Behind, ridiculous school lunch periods (some kids eat school lunch at 10:00am), moved to make way for more test cramming as government demands more standardized tests .... are desperate for an alternative before their child gets run over by our education system run amok.    

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