My experience as a parent of a cyberspace student is one that is pretty detached from the online experience itself. This experience is solely the child's. She is really in her own world. When you were a kid did you use blankets as tents with other kids and play kid games? As the parent I feel like she's away in her pretend tent in her own pretend world. I have found it best to let her alone.
On the other hand, I do get involved too. When I became aware of her progress report in Earth Science it was time to get involved. The "value-added" benefit of class online is that it is available 24/7!!! It's the perfect way to reinstitute homework. Does anyone out there remember the days of homework? This is certainly not the case now-a-days. I feel she hasn't had to do homework for the last few years! Now she can be online in the evening too doing her work and getting ahead. By the way, another benefit of online class is that the entire semester of assignments is at the child's fingertips. The child can choose to work in line with the rest of the class or move ahead. Without schoolwork some evenings she was procastinating. This is when I shout my "bases loaded, batter-up, homerun" cheer, hurray! Homework is back!
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