Students learn fulltime online
The Highlands County School District has 12 enrolled students who don’t have to step on a school campus to learn.
They are not homebound students, but the first students in a new fulltime learning option from Florida Virtual School (FLVS).
Since it was founded in 1997, Florida Virtual School’s enrollment has steadily increased and, since the start of the 2009-10 school year, now includes a fulltime online program.
The Highlands County School District has one or two students, learning fulltime online, in most grades from grade one through 11.
“We started out with about 21, but I think that some have found that it in some ways it is more difficult because, although you have access to a teacher and interact with a teacher, it is still not to the extent that one has when you are in a classroom all day with the teacher right there,” Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Rebecca Fleck said Monday.
Also, the district’s fulltime FLVS enrollment dropped because a few of the students moved from the district.
Some students enrolled fulltime in the virtual school because it gives them a more flexible schedule, Fleck said.
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Students learn fulltime online by Marc Valero
From Highlands Today
