Online High

As I have mentioned numerous times, you need to be careful of choosing the right online high school. Choose the wrong one and you end up with a worthless piece of paper. I came across the article below that talks specifically about this problem. See:

Beware of online high school diploma mills

And, as always, if you are not sure, post a question in the forum.

How do you choose an online high school? There are many key factors in the decision-making process and over the next couple of weeks, I will be looking at some of them. Here is the first:

Part 1: Determine who says that it is a legitimate online high school. There are many fakes on the Internet. An online high school should:

a. Be accredited by either one of the accreditors listed here or here.

b. Be recognized by your state’s department of education.

c. Be recognized by a school district.

Often there is some cross-over between the three of these and that is perfectly acceptable.

So what do you do if your school of interest has none of those three? I would strongly recommend a posting in our forum here as one way to determine if it is a “real” school.

Dora Cyber School is a new online high school in New Mexico. This joins the only other one of which we are aware: New Mexico Virtual School.

Virtual Learning Academy of St. Clair County adds yet another online high school offering to the great state of Michigan.

Wyoming Virtual Academy is a free online high school school for Wyoming residents. It uses the K12.com curriculum.