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Go Online For High School Be Prepared Or Drop Out!
Do you have what it takes to go to high school online? It is not for the faint of heart or the weak of spirit. It will be just as demanding, actually more demanding, than traditional high schools.
If I have not scared you off, here are six points that you need to reconcile before you make the attempt to be an online high school student:
- Being an online high school student is at least as difficult as being a traditional student and most find it more difficult. There are a number of reasons for this including you needing to be the primary motivator to get the work done (as opposed to the teacher).
- You need to choose the right model for you. If you know that you will need extra time to complete courses, do not choose a program that is semester-based. If you know that you need set deadlines in order to complete work, do not choose a program that has open-ended or far in the future deadlines.
- Choose a collaborative arrangement that works for you. If you work best in isolation, do not choose a program that requires group work. If you need the support of other students, do not choose a program that is primarily independent study.
- Choose a program that uses the type of media which works for you. If you need audio and video files, find the programs that offer those resources.
- If you are an adult and want to be in a program that focuses on adults, choose one. If you are a teen and do not want to be “in class” with adults, select a program that only allows the under-18 crowd.
- Commit to doing the work. The #1 reason for students failing to complete a program is a lack of commitment. You can do it. You need to decide that you will do it.
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Getting it wrong again, and again (and again)
So once again two “former governors from different political parties who remain passionate about the quality of education in America” (Chicago Tribune, Perspective, May 3, 2009) have weighed in with a grand proposal about how Arne Duncan should use his “$5 billion to transform education in America” to “improve student achievement and ultimately revolutionize our economy and workforce for the 21st century.”
Neither Jeb Bush nor James B. Hunt Jr. have any background in the field of education, other than being governors. Neither has ever been a teacher, principal, superintendent (although it’s possible Hunt had some personal knowledge of education, having majored in college in “agricultural education”–although he seems to have gone on and immediately got a masters studying how to raise tobacco better, oh, and within two years of college was also studying law–he only failed the bar exam the first time–and was, according to all of biographies I can find on the Web, “an early proponent of teaching standards,” and married a teacher, although she quit her job as teacher to become full-time first-lady–can’t blame her for that!). Yet because they are “passionate” about “the quality of education in America,” and because they believe themselves (implicitly) to offer a balanced perspective (being, after all, “from different political parties”), they think they know how best to spend that money.
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