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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious what the cost differential would to farm out, the handful of kids who still want to do virtual out to k-12 or another virtual program.

Absolutely fine with getting rid of leader in me (majority of schools already quit the program). I would be curious to know if eSY calendar actually did anything impactful for the students at Arcola/Nix . I always thought it was bizarre that Rosco nix a primary school adopted a different calendar than its sister school Cresthaven
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Arcola said it was very helpful and numbers improved.  They want it.  Nix doesn't want it.  You should have paid attention.

Who would they far it out to?[/quote]

K12 being the obvious answer. But I strongly suspect it would be more expensive. K12 would need to carve out a curriculum for MCPS, so it doesn't solve the current problem with lack of scale.

The only practical long-term solution is for the state to establish a program that would serve students across all the counties. They'd probably need to contract that out to K12, but then they might have enough students to make it scale. 
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The cost of the program isn't an issue.  The size is small due to staffing.  They run waitlists.  Why are you so obsessed with this?  It's cheaper to have kids in virtual and it saves space.  Win for all.

So, what do you do with all the special education kids?  If you send them to privates that could be $80K+ a student or more.  And, how many schools do you think have openings on short notice?[/quote]

It's not cheaper to have kids in virtual if the number of students is so small that it doesn't actually affect the resourcing at the homeschools. And that's obviously the case here. So VA becomes quite expensive because it is strictly *in addition* to what we're spending on schools, not an *alternative* to what we're spending on schools. A kid dropping out of their homeschool for VA doesn't save any money for the homeschool.

So yes, cost is absolutely an issue, particularly until you get to a much larger scale.

And the kids that need the supports that require private placements aren't going to VA, given that that comes with none of those supports. [/quote]

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