Home Schooling/Cyberschooling

I don't cyber school my children, but my older daughter's school did post grades and some homework online. And my son, who has autism, is often given online work to do during school breaks.

hi froggieslover I just used our mylot search bar to see if I could find whether or not a cyber school is considered as good as going to a physical school and could not get any definite answer. they claim to be practically the same but never come right out and say that the cyber school diploma will be just as good as going to a physical school. Maybe you should talk to some one in the board of education as to whether a degree from cyberschoold will be just the same as one from an ordinary school.

Never heard of cyber schooling just home schooling and I understand ther that they have to go to a school to take that big test can think of the name of it. I would really check this out before doing it. ANd really a GED is just as good for a diploma that test takes & hours to do and tehy really have to know what tehy are doing to pass it

We did video school. From 5th to when I graduated early, I was in video school. I'd go to an actual school, and then every class we had, we would turn on the VCR, and we would watch a real teacher teach the class that was being videotaped. Is that anything like cyber school? I mean, is that when one gets on the computer and watches someone teach a lesson?

I haven’t had any experience with cyber schooling. I would imagine that the curriculum would be similar to a normal school's but I wonder if the children would miss the social aspect...The qualifications must be recognised by the education department and I guess that is what you are investigating at the moment...I wish I could be more helpful...

Hi froggie I really haven't had any experience myself, but I do know that Pennsylvania offers free cyber school to all Pennsylvania students. I wouldn't think they would offer it if it wasn't a genuine diploma. But the problem, I think, would be in deveoping friendships and social interaction. In my opinion, that's a very important part of school. I realize they would still develope relationships in the community, but I really think they would miss out on some very important social interests. Also, face-to-face discussions would be extremely limited. Not sure I would pick cyber school if I had a chioce.

Personally, if I had to raise children today (both of my kids are grown, married, kids of their own...), I would opt for cyberschooling or homeschooling. I feel they can get just as much of a social life being cyber/home schooled as they would in the public schools but without all the peer pressure and other somewhat adverse side effects of being in the public schools. Now, I'm mostly referring to inner city schools because unfortunately, that's where my kids had to go to school and I wouldn't have subjected them to that had there been other choices at the time. My cousin homeschooled all 8 of her kids; the results? One is in the Marines and one of his first duties was in DC guarding the president. Not bad for a GED huh? Two of other kids have graduated college; one works for BMW, another is in Bucknell. All were homeschooled and none lacked for anything. They all have a great slew of friends too! I think cyber/home schooling is what the parents make of it. If the child just doesn't seem to fit in anywhere at school, gets bullied a lot or is really unhappy at school, isn't making friends, isn't doing well in class, and the parents have an opportunity to cyber/home school the child, then go for it. As for building a social life outside of school, if the family has an active social life, for example, church, other groups or associations or they live in a great neighborhood or belong to organizations that have activities for cyber/home schooled kids, the kids aren't going to miss out on much. And yes, Pennsylvania now offers cyberschool education as part of their public school system, so kids can even join in the sports activities and such even though they're being schooled at home. I even suggested it to my daughter for my grandson, but he's really doing well in his school and it's not an inner city school. He really likes it. His "step-brother" however, isn't doing very well but they can't trust him to do his work at home. That's a different story though. LOL I suggested it to my son for their boy when he's of school age, especially if by that time he and his wife have been able to afford for one of them to work from home. He'd be okay in their current school district until he got to high school and then it would be questionable. Ideas for Low Budget Wedding Planning and Affordable Favors http://www.low-budget-fairy-tale-weddings.com http://www.wedding-favor-bookmarks.com