Is online school hard? What is the best online school?

well, like the other person said, you can do online school through your school district, but there are other online schools that aren't through a district. Your parents would probaly have to do as much work as they would if you went to regular school, (besides driving you to school and back if they do that) And, unlike the other person said, online school is for anyone who benifits from it. someone on the internet is your teacher, and it is more learning thats up on the board.

Go to flvs.com it's easy, free, and has a flexible schedule. You don't have to be a florida resident either. Good Luck

Bullying: Pretty much once you're marked with THAT kind of a target, that's it. You need to find a new place to be. (BTDT, most people who preach about "running away from your problems" haven't been there, they were the ones holding down the new kid and punching him in the gut. They don't tell battered women to shut up and learn how to take a punch. Neither should you.) Switching schools was a godsend for me, went from a truly rough public to a charter school. Improved things 110 percent. > do you really learn anything? You have very little control in online school, because your school district runs it. Some are okay, some are pretty miserable, and since it's up to each school district...well, you can't ever tell. You CAN enroll as independent, but you're talking $7K/year, and I don't have experience with those programs. I'm not sure HOW much you learn in them. > Will my parents have to do alot of stuff, would they end up being the teacher? In traditional homeschool, both yes and no. Since you're no longer a young child learning to read and write, add and subtract, your parents would be "teachers," but more in the way that they would be resources for you. You'd have to look up your state laws and figure out what's required, and then match that up with what you want to do in the future. If you're looking at college, you'd look at the colleges and see what they require, and you make sure you meet those requirements. Then it would go something like: "Mom, I need to take British Literature." "OK. Where are you starting?" "I've read some of the Emily Bronte books, but I'm not sure where to go from there." "Have you checked into classes?" "Not really." "Try the Ashville Community College website and see what they offer; if there's nothing there I'll poke around and see what's here locally." You'd look for classes, make a phone call or two to the professors at the college to see if they're aware of interest groups or clubs about British Literature. Mom would contact the local homeschooling group to see what others have found available...whatever you're trying to do, it's almost guaranteed that someone else has already been through it. > Or is someone on the internet my teacher? You can go that way, too. They'll assign you a course load and you'll be dragged through at the speed and order they deem important. I never picked that option, so I have no experience. > And is it hard? Depends. In our state, the department of education HATED the online school mandate from the Legislature. Since they can't defy the law, they went ahead and made an online school option...and then doubled the course load for online students. They also assigned seats by lottery, they stripped certain grade levels out of the program entirely...they made it nearly impossible to participate in so that you'd run back to the brick-and-mortar school feeling tremendous relief for having escaped the online school year. Within a few years it was stripped of funding and dismantled entirely. Yay, school choice! (We also can't have open enrollment or charter schools. It's the state's way or the highway, baby!) > I'm better in with people showing me how to do the work right over my shoulder, then up on the board. So would you recommend online school for me? Than. You're comparing two things. I'm better at this THAN that. I'm smarter THAN Carrie. I'm taller THAN my brother. I'm faster THAN a cheetah. I'm better at math THAN science. THEN is an order of sequence. I stepped on a snail and THEN I ate escargot. I got out of bed and THEN I got dressed. I stole a panda, THEN we drank malt liquor together. I can hold my liquor better THAN a panda bear. Anyway. Bear in mind what your learning style is, it will make a difference. If you need a person right there in front of you, online schooling won't fulfill that need. http://www.wagnerweb.org/Homeschool_101