Dad likes safety of online high school
February 5th, 2008Periodically, I head over to Elearners.com, the premier website for distance learning. I have been reading the blog of a 44-year-old man who has gone back via distance learning to earn his college degree. He likes it so much that his daughter is now attending this online high school.
One good reason for having his daughter attend an online high school was brought home to him this week when:
a co-worker told me that his son’s high school was on lockdown due to a suspicious man seen on campus, possibly carrying a large knife. This fellow staffer, usually a pretty calm man, was a little concerned about the safety and security of his son. In fact, he was corresponding back and forth with him using text messages in order to know more about what was going on at the school. His son told him that things were pretty much chaotic, with some of the students even ignoring the lockdown and leaving the campus right in the middle of the trouble.
Yup. When people want to talk with me about concerns about socialization with homeschooling/online high schooling, I tell them a true story like the one above. Yes, some public high schools are wonderful. And some, gentle readers, are not.
