Week 12 Case Study 09

1. Who is responsible to pay for students attending virtual high schools?
Technically Michael is responsable, yes I understand that he has family issues. I do believe that the "virtual" high school should only be offered in the summer, where he can focus on that and work, not during the school year cause that is three things for him to worry about (work, school, and virtual school). Since it is high school however, The government should fund it if not 50% of it, being that it is still with in the boundaries of public schooling and meeting the standards of public schools.

2. Should all public schools have a virtual high school component?
I dont know, I personally hate virtual education, it is frustrating to use, half the time the instructors dont use the online format correctly, and grading/assigning can get out of hand. The benefit is that if there was a summer online schooling then students could take remedial classes they might need to be successful in their later classes, benefiting the public school and student.

3. How should parents be notified of the opportunity for online courses?
if their student is struggling then the parent should be informed of the other opportunities their student could try to help them with. Parent teacher conferences would be another good area to bring it up. or even the start of the year parent letter it could also be mentioned.

4. Should teachers receive a degree in teaching online courses before being allowed to teach an
online course?
No. They should only be required to be "certified" to teach it. being that they understand the format of the online homepage. For example D2L has some professors who are really good at the online format and know how to use the site very well, while other do not and the students are docked in grades because of it. D2L is one site, and there is about 20+ different ways its being used, a unified way would help students be successful.