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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the argument that virtual would take resources from a school.  If I unenroll my kid from the school (homeschool, charter, private, whatever) then you lose the resources from the school.

If you set up a virtual academy, which costs about half or 3/4 of normal school, then the school can keep the rest while teaching fewer in-person. Smaller class size.[/quote]

Yes, if you unenroll, the school loses resources, and it also does not have to expend resources to educate your child.

A "virtual option", depending on how it is done, could indeed take resources away from IPL.  For example, the title of this thread, what OP was arguing for incessantly for pages, was a "virtual option at every school."  If you can't see how having two concurrent programs (one fully IPL and one fully virtual) at every school would be infeasible for the majority of schools, I don't know what to tell you.  It's an absurd notion to say that it can be done easily without new teachers, computers, training, etc.  Simulcasting is a hellscape for all, teachers hate it, WTU hates it, and would indeed hurt learning for all kids.

Setting up a central all-virtual option for the entirety of DC is a different thing.  But standing up robust virtual academy (an entirely new school) is difficult on a good day.  For whatever reason, DCPS doesn't think it's the way to go right now, maybe because they know there are a few charters with all-virtual options and they think those wanting all-virtual can go to those charters. Maybe it's just wildly difficult and DCPS can't figure its way out a paper bag.

A central virtual academy is not, however, what the people pushing for a virtual option seem to want.  They seem (as this thread shows, over and over and over) to want to have their charters/schools all over individual virtual options.  Allowing more people into the DCPS virtual academy is ALSO not something that the "virtual option" people seem to be arguing.  
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I was thinking a centralized DCPS option.  The money can stay in DCPS and the chancellor can choose to keep more of that money at the neighborhood schools.

I'm sure there are a lot of details, but Virgina figured out and PG county figured it out.  I'm sure DCPS can.[/quote]

Yeah…about that. Have you been with DCPS for long?[/quote]

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