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[DawgPod78]

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[fucking done]

dont do it, i used to and i regret it, it does nothing but make the truancy officer very upset and they might call the police on u.

[Cianna200]

So many parents prove that they don't love their children. :( It's very sad. I am also doing online schooling and however you want to school should not matter. Can you give me some of the reasons your parents are being selfish in their opinion of online schooling?

[Cianna200]

You and I have much in common. In my opinion, the happiness of your child is more important than school and your parents don't see it. I tried rebelling but it did not work. Have you told them public school is not good for your health?

[Justin417]

I'm in the same situation, I would do anything to go to online school but my parents refuse.

I know people say bad things about online school, but trust me any environment that dosen't have a bunch of moronic students around and no physical teachers that want to piss in your cornflakes must be pretty damn nice.

[Alistoriv]

If you do go to online school be careful.
You might end up in a shitty one with a shitty curriculum and shitty students who were more idiotic than the ones at real school like me.

[Justin417]

Quote:You might end up in a shitty one with a shitty curriculum and shitty students who were more idiotic than the ones at real school like me.

Oh come on even on the internet school? Fuck I just want to skip ahead until I'm 21 I can't take this stupid age anymore!

[James Comey]

I wouldn't suggest that. It may make them even more irate. Instead, try a more negotiating tone. Try to get them to start developing empathy with you.

[Gwedin]

What Vesper said. I've done it before. Didn't eat, didn't move, and fuck it got the the point where it was so painful that I gave up. My mother just shrugged me off the whole time as an attention seeker. Don't do it.

[darkmind15]

its better to snap than hold it in

[SoulRiser]

Prove to them you're not lazy - learn stuff online right now while refusing to go to school. Or if they make you go anyway (to avoid that cop problem), sleep in class and refuse to pay attention, and insist that you will only do educational things at home from now on. But then you have to actually do educational things at home, preferably make it as obvious as possible what you're doing... like tell them what you learned every day or something. Tell them you'd like some actual online classes, but in the meantime you'll have to make your own since they won't let you take any official school ones.

But you can sign up for some of these free online courses perhaps:
Coursera, edX, Udacity, NovoEd, iversity, Khan Academy
(blatantly stolen from xcriteria's signature)

Possibly more here (scroll down for links):
http://www.school-survival.net/alternati...schooling/

[darkmind15]

i got to this point and they just gave up

[Bellaabzug21]

My experience with online school sucked. The people writing the curriculum can be even stupider than a normal teacher because they don't even have to look at you when they tell you that you're worthless now.

[HawkbitAlpha]

This is sort of off topic, but like Alistoriv said above, be careful about which program you pick if you do get the opportunity.
Back in Spring 2013, me and him were both on virtual school, and they both sucked. Me being on a modified education2020 program, and him being in PA Virtual(?).

Right now, I'm using A Beka Academy, which is a sort of homeschool-online school hybrid program run by Pensacola Christian College. Beats online schooling by a long shot.

[xcriteria]

(02-27-2014 04:56 PM)Hawkbit Wrote:  This is sort of off topic, but like Alistoriv said above, be careful about which program you pick if you do get the opportunity.
Back in Spring 2013, me and him were both on virtual school, and they both sucked. Me being on a modified education2020 program, and him being in PA Virtual(?).

Right now, I'm using A Beka Academy, which is a sort of homeschool-online school hybrid program run by Pensacola Christian College. Beats online schooling by a long shot.

A Beka? Isn't that a program with a bunch of creationist material in it?

What's it like, and how does it differ from other forms of online schooling?

[xcriteria]

(02-27-2014 12:24 PM)Bellaabzug21 Wrote:  My experience with online school sucked. The people writing the curriculum can be even stupider than a normal teacher because they don't even have to look at you when they tell you that you're worthless now.

This is why we need to build new ways to do online school, in addition to in-person school.

It does seem that most online school is simply the factory model of education adapted to an online format. There are so many more ways to do things!

I've seen some interesting examples of this in the online course that just wrapped up, New School Creation, as wall as earlier ones, Designing a New Learning Environment (DNLE) and Learning Creative Learning (LCL.) All of these were adaptations of classes run in graduate schools of education... and all were about completely transforming how education works.

That puts quite a twist on "online learning" -- if learners can participate in the same kinds of courses and conversations that used to be exclusive to educators enrolled in education programs, a different world really is possible.

And, it's happening.

So, rather than just being passive consumers of pre-defined "online schools," it's time for learners to actively co-create online learning environments. One way of doing this is by sharing more detailed feedback and analysis of school environments any of you happen to be in (online, brick-and-morter, homeschool, or some hybrid.) Another is beginning to envision how better assignments, materials, experiences, and feedback can be developed... both for the purposes of being interesting, and for the purposes of providing life-relevant learning.

Thoughts?