At 9 years old, L.J. started missing school. His parents said they would homeschool him. It took two years — during which he was beaten and denied food — for anyone to notice he wasn’t learning.
k12.com offers free at home state schooling in all 50 states and will give you a computer if you need it and it states school system supports that. It’s not home schooling it’s the state curriculum taught by licensed teachers online and your kid takes the state tests. They are even qualified to join the local sports teams and such through some reciprocity thing.
I don’t know that company personally, but at a glance it appears to be a for-profit corporation that has been the subject of litigation recently. So… not really what we need.
The funding needs to be going into public schools via taxes, not to private corporations via tuition. We need local oversight by public schools accountable to voters for all education. That company–again, at a glance–seems to be the exact opposite, and kind of part of the problem.
I did k12 for high school. Not to say the company doesn’t have any issues (every company does), but my experience was good. I graduated with honors and had a much better time than the one year I did in a brick and mortar high school.
k12.com offers free at home state schooling in all 50 states and will give you a computer if you need it and it states school system supports that. It’s not home schooling it’s the state curriculum taught by licensed teachers online and your kid takes the state tests. They are even qualified to join the local sports teams and such through some reciprocity thing.
I don’t know that company personally, but at a glance it appears to be a for-profit corporation that has been the subject of litigation recently. So… not really what we need.
The funding needs to be going into public schools via taxes, not to private corporations via tuition. We need local oversight by public schools accountable to voters for all education. That company–again, at a glance–seems to be the exact opposite, and kind of part of the problem.
I did k12 for high school. Not to say the company doesn’t have any issues (every company does), but my experience was good. I graduated with honors and had a much better time than the one year I did in a brick and mortar high school.