HOME EDUCATION MAGAZINE: Risks Public Virtual Schools Pose to Homeschools
http://www.homeedmag.com - April 1st, 2008 - In the March - April 2008 Home Education Magazine Larry and Susan Kaseman explain the "Risks Public Virtual Schools Pose to Homeschools."

/Home Schooling News Articles/ - TONASKAT, WA, April 03, 2008 - According to Larry and Susan Kaseman, "Technology's impact on education continues to increase. Virtual schools are growing, although not as quickly as some enthusiasts predicted, and are clearly here to stay. Many of us homeschoolers are continuing pretty much as we have been, purchasing curriculums or developing our own and learning from real life. (We are not talking here about what homeschoolers of all ages learn using the Internet to find out how hurricanes form, why Lake Baikal is shrinking, or how to make barbecue sauce.) However, virtual schools could have a serious impact on homeschooling. This column will consider homeschoolers' perspectives on virtual schools and ways in which we need to be careful not to let virtual schools undermine our homeschooling freedoms.

First, some definitions. Virtual schools operate primarily by means of the Internet, with teachers and students communicating principally through software programs, email, chat rooms, real time Internet classes, and other technologies. Virtual schools can be public (that is, supported by tax money) or private. Some public virtual school students study in conventional public school buildings, using the schools' computers. Others work in their homes using their own computers or equipment loaned by their public virtual school. As a further complication, some public virtual schools are charter schools; some are not. Terminology and technicalities vary from state to state."

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