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[quote=Anonymous]While I have no experience with VAVA, I was the learning coach for two children through TXVA, and I also used the homeschool option in Utah (no virtual school, just us).  If VAVA has synchronous classes, avoid it; if not, it should be great.

There is more input from the learning coach into how, when and how much to teach.  However, if VAVA is anything like TXVA, you also have to track minutes per subject (with a daily and weekly minimum), and there were synchronous classes (akin to DL) that the students had to attend.  Because it was a public school, they implemented the K12 curriculum in their own way for some subjects, while they chose to use other curriculum for some subjects.

My takeaway is this: Synchronous classes through a virtual school are better than DL, due to the teachers planning to teach that way instead of scrambling.  For someone who feels capable of choosing, implementing and perhaps even designing their own curriculum, synchronous classes are only useful if you have too many balls in the air that year.  Because you’re tied to the school’s video schedule, you lose all of the flexibility to do things on your own timetable.  If the classes are asynchronous or they don’t have classes, it’s great.

Also, rigor varies.  The basic K12 curriculum is very basic, and associated virtual schools range from low rigor to gifted only.[/quote]

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