Is your child currently in cyber school?

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I'm just checking into cyber schools, and I noticed one just today that not only is a cyber school, but has a special needs program, as well as other great things -- leadership program, performance program, languages program, etc.

I would love to hear about people's experiences with cyber school -- parents, and ESPECIALLY students.

We are not considering this from a bullying/trouble at school perspective, but more a "can't pay attention, not learning anything" at school perspective -- our child does well on the school tests, but only because he comes home and we teach him what he should have learned at school. The teachers are great, even the school personnel is OK, it's just that our son can't physically, for some reason, pay attention there because of too much distration, noise, sound, etc.

Kris

I'm homeschooling for similar reasons. My son is too distracted by other students. He has to be in a quiet room (or background music) with 1-to-1 instruction for him to get any work done. I haven't enrolled him in any online program just yet. I would consider that for high school though. Some of the programs allow the students to earn a diploma.

Not cyber, but paper and pen correspondence course, of which he does just the bare minimum for assessment purposes. It works pretty well, and are grateful this option exists because in France if don't follow some kind of accredited course have to have home visits and inspections; absolutely not what we want, with my 8 year old son's speech and delivery/response difficulties.

Good luck. I think almost anything is better than school, if have a parent able to stay home.

As my son could tell you though, he learns more from his autonomous use of the internet, and his book reading, from anything in the official course. For instance his learning to read happened playing lego and runescape games on the net!

It's kind of a hike from Mars, but
http://www.spectrumcharterschool.org/

also look at
http://autism.meetup.com/cities/us/pa/monroeville/