Grapevine-Colleyville district will offer a fully online school

[TexasTowelie]

Students from across Texas could be enrolling in the Grapevine-Colleyville school district before next school year.

Trustees recently approved a plan to provide $196,000 in seed money to create an open-enrollment virtual academy. The academy will serve 400 to 500 nontraditional full-time students and will boost the district's declining enrollment.

"Our goal is to have this open when every other school opens in August," said Rick Westfall, the district's chief learning officer. "It'll be a school for those with high expectations and will have college-readiness courses."

The Virtual Academy@GCISD will be one of only three schools of its kind in Texas to offer a free full-time public school curriculum with its own teaching staff online.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/03/03/4656168/grapevine-colleyville-district.html#storylink=cpy

[msongs]

1. online schools/courses can be inferior for several reasons.....

first, they do not reach out to multiple learning styles like auditory, tactile, socially interactive. if one does not have personality type to sit alone connected just to non-human devices, learning is far less effective for many subjects. there is no group sharing of ideas and materials. online learning is mostly the equivalent of standardized testing: look at the video and fill in the blanks

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2. this is the republican dream

they don't want to pay no taxes for poor kids to get an education. I mean, they will be heading to the private prisons asap anyway, they don't need the same education the rich kids get.

So they online education where you can buy the supplies and the programs from them. Bingo they don't pay for poor kids education and they can get a profit too. Whhooo Hooooo!

Republican dream

Now on to investing in the private prison system where the very poorly educated online kids will be heading.(thanks to our two class legal system designed to keep those prisons filled with the poor and middle class)

I hate the rich and their greed. May the poor and middle class rise up and eat them!

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3. How will the State move the money per student, from the home school district, to the GCISD?

When will the, move, occur? June, as a withdrawal with paperwork already written. Or August, with a voucher from the State, which will be approved by the TX Legislature in this 2013 session.

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4. Could home schoolers set up cooperatives at a church? Who will be writing or has written

this online curriculum?

GCISD a private and public school.