Chapter 2: Virtual High Schools

The Internet is coming part of our lives every day, especially for young people. Have virtual high schools is a great opportunity which opens new horizons, particularly for students in rural communities where choices are limited, or for those with special needs due to illness or serious involvement with athletics, or for those can’t attend it or never finished ,those advantages I will talk later.

Have virtual high schools are a great opportunity. Online Classes also gave student different points of view on any subject, they can take classes from a teacher on Paris, Chicago or other cities all around the world.
Students who take cyber courses proceed at their own pace. If they need to listen to a lecture a second time, or think about a question for awhile, they may do so without fearing that they will hold back the rest of the class. Through virtual high schools, students can complete a degree more quickly, or repeat failed courses without the indignity of being in a class with younger students. Students have access to an incredible variety of enrichment courses, or can participate in internships or work and still graduate with their classes.

Virtual high Schools education has many other advantages:

• It permits students in small, rural, or low-wealth school districts to take specialized courses that would ordinarily not be available to them.
• It provides home schooled students with instruction in subjects their parents might not be able to teach, such as foreign languages or computer skills or other topics.
• It meets the needs of school phobics, those in hospitals or recovering at home, dropouts who would like to get back in, expelled students, single parents, and students in other states or even other countries looking for nontraditional educational solutions.
• And, in an age when many of our schools are overcrowded or crumbling, cyber learning makes financial sense, too, because schools using distance learning do not need to modernize or build new buildings in order to provide quality cyber instruction.
• It permits students to interact with people all around the world.

My only concern on virtual high schools is the lack of face –to-face interaction. Particularly with all-day virtual schools, is the difficulty of providing good oversight especially for that young age but that doesn’t mean and disagree with this concept, I think that we as educators shouldn’t close that door , and being skeptical to new ideas.