Home school from online?

Question

Hello, ive heard of normal kids getting home schooled from online What is this? Would they really get as good education as going to normal school? and get Gcses ect.. whats your guys opions on this.

Answer 1

Well it is called cyber schooling. I am cyber schooled. There are teachers that you can talk to on the computer and everything. I am in the school Agora. If you enroll in that, they will send you a free laptop, books, and all other materials needed. they say what you need to do online and there are sometimes things to do online. It is really fun and easy! Yes the education is great. There are clubs you can sign up for (cooking, photography, newspaper, craft...ect.) and feild trips you can take. You go for PSSA tests. the website says there is still time to enroll but as I said I am in this school and the 2nd semester starts the 22nd. So you will not get your books in time! lol!

♥maddie

http://www.agora.org/

Answer 2

samlearning.com?

Answer 3

pennfoster.edu

Answer 4

Online school is just as reputable as ground school. I don't know what grade your kids are in or if they're in college, but I'm in online college, holding a 4.0 and I'm in Criminal Justice and have been getting an excellent education. My school is www.ctuonline.edu

I recommend it to anyone who can afford it...depending on their needs and such, of course.

Answer 5

I was home schooled or as they say satelite schooled from Christian Liberty Academy Sat' School in Arlington heights IL..   They have a website,used to have it bookmarked but not sure ..

Answer 6

Online schooling is schooling done online. The course content is put online with assignments to do and submit, a teacher provides feedback, some online schools ahve a student chat area...

Yes, you can get just as good of an education. And it'll probably take less time so you'll have more time to be out and about and do things.

Yes, you can still do your GCSE's. Check this forum again as there's a question that was asked just after yours about GCSE's. But if you follow an online program, I'm sure the online school will be able to advise.

I think online school is good for the student/family that wants an outside structure and evaluation. There's nothing barring a student from being socially active if they do school online. There's likely to be a ton of things to do where they live. People used to be home tutored all the time and they probably had better social skills than many today.

Answer 7

Hi, we're Briteschool and do offer LIVE lessons (with real teachers speaking to students via mic and a whiteboard) as opposed to distance learning (by correspondence).  So, thanks Hannah, whoever you are, for spotting us - sorry to correct you ever so slightly :-)

We do IGCSEs in the "usual" subjects (Maths, English, Science, French, History ...), as well as general lessons for those who don't want to sit exams (including Spanish, French, Japanese, Computing and Digital Photography).

Some students join us for regular sessions in a group, others prefer one-to-one tuition.

And we have students as young as eight in classes together - joining the sessions together at the same time as their classmates in Spain, the UK, the USA, Turkey, Japan ... :-)

Answer 8

Yes, I'm sure there is although strictly speaking it is distance education rather than true home schooling. You still get to do your studying at home or wherever else you want to do it (eg at the library, at the beach, whilst travelling) anywhere basically that is outside of school and works for you.

Anyway I think there is an online school (or cyber school) called Briteschool (Brit e-school).  @  http://www.briteschool.co.uk

There are also a number of correspondence schools such as Oxford Homeschooling (  http://www.oxfordhomeschooling.co.uk  )  which will send you everything you need to get your GCSEs independently i.e. outside of school. I think you can use email to get your assignments (both the assignment tasks and briefs as well as the marked and corrected versions) and return them to your tutors with most of the traditional correspondence schools by now.

Personally I'm 15 and have been home-educated (my country's name for home school) all my life. We homeschool proper i.e. without any involvement from any outside agencies, distance education providers, cyberschools, correspondence schools etc. I reckon home education rox and that things like cyber schools are beneficial to people and families who maybe don't have the time or the confidence to go it entirely alone. They can be expensive (some can also be free) but if your parents are cash rich and time poor, they can be a valid and useful alternative to conventional schooling.

They provide a different form of education - academia rather than co-curricular. If they are private then they have no obligation to follow the National Curriculum (just as any private school in the UK doesn't have to pay heed to the National Curriculum - neither do home schoolers). It really depends what the phrase 'a good education' means to you and your parents and what you personally are looking for from any school. Because they depend on students to work independently and there is no teacher standing over them telling them it is time for their maths class or asking where last week's homework is, the education provided by such schools is as good (or as lacking) as the effort and motivation of each individual student.  

Btw, I just assumed you're in the UK as you mentioned GCSEs. I'm not (in the UK that is!)

EDIT: Have they stopped teaching critical thinking in US cyber-schools?!

Do half of you ever even bother to read the question before you pile in?!? Blake is asking about a cyber school where KIDS CAN GET THEIR GCSEs. For anyone who doesn't know GCSE = General Certificate of Secondary Education. They are exams taken at age 15/16 in BRITISH SCHOOLS.

How the heck do schools like Penn Foster, Agora or Christian Liberty Academy Sat' School, none of whom  would prolly know what a GCSE was if it came up and bit them on the bum, have *ANY* relevance to the question asked?!?

Trying to make out that such schools are, in any way, relevant to Blake's enquiry (rather than misleading) is one helluva stretch of the imagination by anyone's standards!!