{"id":14606,"date":"2012-04-15T10:50:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T15:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14606"},"modified":"2012-04-15T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T15:50:41","slug":"virginia-county-considering-creating-first-virtual-public-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/15\/virginia-county-considering-creating-first-virtual-public-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia county considering creating first virtual public high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In many ways, it&#8217;s a tribute to the resilience and determination of the educational establishment that it&#8217;s taken this long for a school district to even consider offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/fairfax-county-considers-creating-virtual-high-school\/2012\/04\/12\/gIQAJ7ksDT_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">completely online classes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fairfax County schools could become the first in the Washington region to create a virtual public high school that would allow students to take all their classes from a computer at home.<\/p>\n<p>No sports teams. No pep rallies. No lockers, no hall passes. Instead, assignments delivered on-screen and after-school clubs that meet online.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a reimagination of the American high school experience. And it\u2019s a nod to the power of the school choice movement, which has given rise to the widespread expectation that parents should have a menu of options to customize their children\u2019s education.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, it might not just be simple willingness to allow more choice on the part of the school district &#8230; there might be other pressures being applied:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dozens of younger students have left Fairfax schools for the public Virginia Virtual Academy, the first statewide full-time virtual program. Open to any Virginia student in kindergarten through eighth grade, it is run by a Herndon firm \u2014 K12 Inc., the nation\u2019s largest operator of public virtual schools \u2014 and enrolls nearly 500 students.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many ways, it&#8217;s a tribute to the resilience and determination of the educational establishment that it&#8217;s taken this long for a school district to even consider offering completely online classes: Fairfax County schools could become the first in the Washington region to create a virtual public high school that would allow students to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,79,28,15,13],"tags":[58,504,393],"class_list":["post-14606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-education","category-media","category-technology","category-usa","tag-internet","tag-teenagers","tag-virginia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3NA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14608,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14606\/revisions\/14608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}