Saturday, March 5, 2011

A parent's experience after "sending" teen to school in cyberspace?

What have I done? Some may say that it's risky.  No, I didn't send my teenage daughter to outerspace in frustration with her performance in school. But I did decide to give the (Jetson's) cyber high school a try for my teenager Judy Jetson. No, I was not hoodwinked by my teen into making this choice. This is a new experience for us that I decided and she agreed to.

It's been 6 months so far and I still have my hair on my head! It's the weekend. Of course if I want to know her progress I can just login to her account and look for myself.  I can check all of her classes. Actually, I just usually make her show me because it's easier! :-)

She's good at hiding things though from me. Like the time that she almost got away with hiding from me that her semester progress was at 57% completion in English class versus 2% completion in Earth Science! Sure, I freaked out as this was the day before parent / teacher conferences. Yes, this almost slid by me. But she explained to me that she had been reading the lessons but waiting to complete the assignments. She has caught up, glad to say (phew).  But that was one rollercoaster ride she had me on and not the first this year. 

So my experience so far has been, yes, an amusement park experience :->

Presently, the ride's a merry-go-round.

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