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My teacher is making me enroll in a virtual high school. For a grade in normal school I have to get good grades in virtual school. So now I have homework assigned to me from a teacher I've never met on top of normal homework assignments. Has anyone else tried virtual schooling and can give me some kind of advice??? Posts: 6026 | Registered: Dec 2004
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You haven't met Mrs. Bristow. She is really persuasive. If she wants you to do something, you do it. Either way I think it will be fun. Even though I have to jam four years worth of classes into four weeks. Needless to say I won't have much spare time. And I'll be tired a lot. I'll probably still be pretty active though. Just tired.
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Steve, why would you "have to jam four years worth of classes into four weeks."? And how will you do this?
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The virtual classes only last for four weeks and my teacher, Mrs. Bristow, wants me to complete every single class available. So what would usually take four years in a normal high school I have to do in four weeks. I'm not quite sure how I plan to do it. Forget sleeping or eating for awhile?
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Um, take a break from Hatrack? And why do you have to take this class? Is it for graduation credit, or for extra credit, or what?
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Basically my teacher is blackmailing me. I either take the classes or else. Its not that I really was all that interested, but she is making me. And what did you say kq? Take a break from Hatrack? Are you insane? I just won't sleep for awhile. Its really no big deal. Posts: 6026 | Registered: Dec 2004
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How much of your grade is based on this virtual class which requires you to "jam four years worth of classes into four weeks"?
Are you the only one in class required to do this? Do you have a link to this virtual school? Do you have to pay for the tuition? Most college-level distance learning classes I know of are not free. But high school classes may be different I guess.
I don't have any useful advice, but you do have my sympathy. Posts: 4116 | Registered: Apr 2002
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My 14 year old neice is doing this. My sister and family are living in the Maldives, 400 miles west of Sri Lanka, while my brother-in-law works as an aircraft mechanic for a puddle-jumping outfit there. They decided to enroll neice in virtual school rather than have her attend school in the Maldives either a. in a language she didn't understand or b. while paying a horrendous amount of money for international school. Except most of the international kids evidently come to my neighborhood since there's an excellent international school here.
But I digress.
The point? My neice is doing it. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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quote: So what would usually take four years in a normal high school I have to do in four weeks.
I find this highly suspect. If you'd care to provide a link detailing the process I'd consider changing my view that this is a vast exaggeration.
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I don't think she would do that to a class, no. And if it's for a grade, and everyone else in the class is doing it, and it's free, suck it up and deal with it, as my mom used to say. We had to care for the "crack baby" in my Child Development class for 2 weeks each. If we had a teacher who wouldn't allow us to have the "baby" (which cried both when it needed something and just randomly and inconsolably), we had to find a trusted friend to "babysit" who was allowed to have it in class. I got very little sleep those two weeks. I can't say I think this project sounds worse than that.
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She hasn't told us the website yet. It won't start until March 16? I think. But right now she is just getting us prepared. Its just called Virtual High School, that is the name, I don't know the site.
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Preparing as in teaching us the basics for every class. Its been really difficult. I'm sure I'll make the deadline but I might have to give up sleeping for awhile. Or Hatrack. Or VBS. Probably sleeping. Posts: 6026 | Registered: Dec 2004
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Initially I interpreted this as her singling you out for extra work. In the context of a whole class, it makes more sense. Still a heckuva lot of work.
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I have been getting introduced to all of my classmates. They seem friendly. I'm not sure they have been exposed to Monty Python and the Holy Grail though. Because everytime I quote it they don't laugh or quote a different part of the movie like a normal person does. I don't know.
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quote: I'm not sure they have been exposed to Monty Python and the Holy Grail though. Because everytime I quote it they don't laugh or quote a different part of the movie like a normal person does.
They may not be from this planet. Despite what they say.
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I'm not sure. I'm going to ask them. I don't think they've been exposed to The Princess Bride or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy either. If not, they aren't human.
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I was supposed to be born on your birthday, Teshi. But I wasn't. So party for the both of us. Posts: 10886 | Registered: Feb 2000
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One of my friends has the same schedule as me. We've been working together on some of the assignements because she is hopelessly confused. I read "The Lottery." It was really weird. But I loved the irony.
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We're studying irony right now. I need to read "The Gift of the Magi," which I have already read, too.
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