angle kitsune
February 11th, 2008, 03:37 PM
Okay this is a option now for any and all students in the united states as well as some other countries I am sure. However most programs offer this at a price; A high price more often then not treating it as a private school. private schools for k-6 cost about $3,267 nation wide (department of education- 2000). According the the
Council for American Private Education for highschoolers private school costs between $4,000 and $12,000. Also most private schools are religiously-affiliated making choices slim for kids with out of the majority faiths. Now for the University of Miami Online Highschool the tuition for 8-12 is about $10,000 a year. More often it is about $1,000 a year, not quite as high as private highschools but for alot of people that is still alot of money. But some programs are running off of donations from people who just don't want to see so many students drop out. http://www.umohs.com/admissions_tuition.html
Okay my thing is that from what I see, being a public high school student the reason many students drop out is from them working and the times not matching up. Maybe not students that make the choice to work but the ones that have to, be it supporting a child or their parents in a troubled time in their life. Or sometimes the parents want them to work and will not allow them not to hold down a job. Sometimes for the ones that don't have that exact problem they are gifted in a trade and get a job making decent money doing that before they finish highschool and just stop, not seeing it as important. Some students just can't deal with the stress, bullies, teachers who don't care, teachers who don't teach, teachers who can't keep their students in order to provide a learning enviroment and their grades are showing that it IS affecting them. This causes some students to drop out, about 1/2 the students in my school that drop out its becouse they are not getting what they need from the school. So if there is a internet option why are so few taking it? many parents assume it always costs money, there is a free program in Alaska, Navada, washington,oklahoma, minnasota all provided by a program called Advanced Academics. Other parents are making their student suffer through a school that is doing nothing for them when they could do better online where they can be in a quite room and have one on one help, but to them no matter what, it is still droping out. My mother is like that however I am still falowing this path other wise I would not end up finishing highschool at all becouse I am learning nothing in some of the important classes. there are more students out there like me, more then you think. Students who need a at your own pace program where if they do not finish, it really is no one's fault but their own. So parents of MW, I have to wounder, what would you think if when your child grows into a teenager and comes to you and tells you, what they are doing is not working and they would like to try something like Advanced Academics's programs what would you say? Why do you believe so many parents will only allow their child to do a treditional highschool? Why are some parents not listening when their child comes to them saying that its not working and that they need help? Are they too busy? they don't have anything to do with the schooling if they don't want to.
(sorry this turned into a bit of a rant, I am going through this with my mother at the moment. I am just woundering what the parents here think of programs like this. http://www.highschoolontheweb.com/?source=aaihome this is the program i spoke of that is free to its students)
Council for American Private Education for highschoolers private school costs between $4,000 and $12,000. Also most private schools are religiously-affiliated making choices slim for kids with out of the majority faiths. Now for the University of Miami Online Highschool the tuition for 8-12 is about $10,000 a year. More often it is about $1,000 a year, not quite as high as private highschools but for alot of people that is still alot of money. But some programs are running off of donations from people who just don't want to see so many students drop out. http://www.umohs.com/admissions_tuition.html
Okay my thing is that from what I see, being a public high school student the reason many students drop out is from them working and the times not matching up. Maybe not students that make the choice to work but the ones that have to, be it supporting a child or their parents in a troubled time in their life. Or sometimes the parents want them to work and will not allow them not to hold down a job. Sometimes for the ones that don't have that exact problem they are gifted in a trade and get a job making decent money doing that before they finish highschool and just stop, not seeing it as important. Some students just can't deal with the stress, bullies, teachers who don't care, teachers who don't teach, teachers who can't keep their students in order to provide a learning enviroment and their grades are showing that it IS affecting them. This causes some students to drop out, about 1/2 the students in my school that drop out its becouse they are not getting what they need from the school. So if there is a internet option why are so few taking it? many parents assume it always costs money, there is a free program in Alaska, Navada, washington,oklahoma, minnasota all provided by a program called Advanced Academics. Other parents are making their student suffer through a school that is doing nothing for them when they could do better online where they can be in a quite room and have one on one help, but to them no matter what, it is still droping out. My mother is like that however I am still falowing this path other wise I would not end up finishing highschool at all becouse I am learning nothing in some of the important classes. there are more students out there like me, more then you think. Students who need a at your own pace program where if they do not finish, it really is no one's fault but their own. So parents of MW, I have to wounder, what would you think if when your child grows into a teenager and comes to you and tells you, what they are doing is not working and they would like to try something like Advanced Academics's programs what would you say? Why do you believe so many parents will only allow their child to do a treditional highschool? Why are some parents not listening when their child comes to them saying that its not working and that they need help? Are they too busy? they don't have anything to do with the schooling if they don't want to.
(sorry this turned into a bit of a rant, I am going through this with my mother at the moment. I am just woundering what the parents here think of programs like this. http://www.highschoolontheweb.com/?source=aaihome this is the program i spoke of that is free to its students)