Online High

I received the following email from a young lady who wants to desperately complete high school. I have deleted information of a personal nature. Amber says:

I need help on choosing the right online high school. I am 17 years old, and had to drop out of high school to take care of my bedridden grandmother and my younger siblings, because my mother abandoned us. I really want to attend xxxxxxxxx. I can’t get my GED because I am not 18. So online high school seemed the best option. But I am really confused…I don’t know if the college I want to go to will accept the online diplomas or not.

If there was ever a person who needs an online high school, it would be you, Amber. You are fortunate that, given what are probably troubling financial issues, you live in a state that has three free online high schools. They are:

Florida Connections Academy

Florida Virtual School School

Florida Virtual Academy

I would contact all three and see which one seems to be the best fit for you. Talk with them about what equipment they supply and what support they offer.

You can do this.

You can finish.

You can get your diploma.

Why is Laurel Springs School (and now also Laureate School) so successful? Because they are so good at the marketing thing. Go to MySpace. They are there. Go to YouTube. They are there. Go to BestOnlineHighSchools.com. They are there.

What?

Why do I mention BestOnlineHighSchools.com?

Because after I interviewed Dennis Rice, director of Laureate School for the Gifted and Talented, they made sure to put a link from the Laureate School website back to the interview on the Best Online High Schools website.

Why do that?

It’s all about the added credibility. It doesn’t always have to be your school talking about how spectacular you are. As a matter of fact, increasingly it needs to be other sites and other organizations doing that for you.

And that is why they are so successful.

They get that.

UPDATE: Laurel Springs has also mentioned it on their site as well.