Personal Narrative: My Interest In Virtual Schools

Over the past eighteen years I have been alive, there have not been any real challenges I have faced in my pursuit of education. I come from a family of immigrants that managed to find themselves a good life, away from the ghetto and the poverty line, through hard work. Both my parents had to move to a place away from everything they knew to learn English as a second language to give their children, myself included, a better chance at life, and I can gladly say their effort was not in vain. If there was one thing I struggled with in pursuit of my education, it would have to be myself.

In the online simulation My Virtual Adult, I was responsible in making decisions that impacted how my adult developed during emerging adulthood, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood. With each decision made, I used critical thinking and outside experiences to make my final decision for each scenario. When making the appropriate decision, I thought about how it would influence my adult later in life when my children were raised and had families of their own. Throughout My Virtual Adult I learned the many hardships adulthood holds such as, financial, marital, and career related problems. My adult named Sarah went through many ups and downs throughout adulthood. She suffered from many losses and financial problems which resulted in significant weight fluctuations throughout her 20’s and 30’s.

A club that I had always wanted to be apart of since my freshman year of highschool was The Beta Club.

It was early July in Southern California: the sun was high, the air was warm, and the palm trees were swaying. Unfortunately, the bright sun could not light the darkness of the pit I had been slowly falling into during my tumultuous school year at my new charter school. On that day, when the other girls were tanning beachside, I was sitting deskside. I was trapped in a tiny, moldy, yellow-carpeted education office at the school I had transferred to the year prior. Like my fading hope, the dusty chandelier was barely hanging on from the ceiling. The room’s peculiarity added to my anxiety, as I felt failure lingering in the musty air. Though I had been sheltered by my parents’ optimism, I knew what I would soon hear: “I am so sorry sweetheart,

I gave birth to a baby girl named Stella (Manis, 2008). My boyfriend picked her name when I started the simulation, and I thought it was a good choice. Stella had a normal birth, which took about 10 hours. I gave birth naturally with my partner by my side. Stella and I bonded hormonally after about a week, though I chose not to breastfeed her. During her first weeks, Stella mostly slept. When she was awake, I took time to sing to her and rock her, as well as talking and playing her music. She had some trouble with feeding at the start, but after a while she began to enjoy mealtimes. Because my partner worked during the week, we would use disposable diapers during that time and cloth diapers on weekends. The parenting

When my mom told me that a letter had to be written for me to be able to attend the LIFE Charter school in North Shore, I said I wanted to help. I feel that by me explaining, you may be able to understand better why I chose to switch. It may seem unusual that I chose to switch schools for my last year when I have been going to Richmond since I was four. Trust me, I understand this. I’ve been told enough times. There are a couple of main reasons as to why I wanted to switch from Richmond, to LIFE. When I have told them to you, maybe you will get a better idea of why this switch was something that I wanted to make happen.

Now let’s quickly close this protracted (slide rule scaled) essay by skipping over the gaping and barren caldera that is my Public School education, where I studiously avoided the pre-med Math and Science track - since I don’t plan on becoming a doctor or a mathematician, in favor of Castle’s (almost but not quite) nationally recognized Media Arts Program - since I do plan on pursuing the Arts, diving deep into the (Liberal) Arts and Languages - Pidgin, Spanish, French, English & Writing classes, to emulate the trail-blazing trajectory of my older (and similarly math-phobic) sister Maria, so like her I too might procure a Kenyon Film degree and secure my fame and fortune and everything that goes with it - I thank you all (and one day The Academy)

The event that I think will help me with my online school is support. When I was in school the last time online I did not have as much encouragement or support that I do now. In my mind I want so bad to have a degree so I can work in a field that I love so very much. I have been to two different online schools, and have failed at both as in I did not finish. One reason is because of my work schedule that I had at that time, and the other reason was because I had no one to help me at home with the kids and the other things I had going at the time. However in the event that now I have help from my parents and other love ones I now have the support I need to go back to school and finish. That way I will be able to reach my goal and that is to earn my degree, and have it in a field that I love.

Hi everyone, my name is Paula Bondoc and I live in Dublin, Georgia. Right now I'm in high school and I haven't decided on a major yet. This isn't my first time taking an online course but it is the first online college course. I would say that my comfort level with this subject is about 3/6 just because History wasn't my best subject before, but I hope that this course will help me be more comfortable with

I wanted to hack my learning. So, I've started to research and gather material about neuroscience and neuro apprenticeship for a method of hacking the learning. I did severall mindmaps, immersion creation, read many books, talked with diverse people on the streets to get outside opinions. Based on that I made severall progresses on a structure of knowledge to help other people, and later establish a startup. Aalso, I learned body language in 15 days, Italian and Spanish fluency in 30 days.

I i i i i i i It started out just like any other day, walking from my stack to school, maybe getting chased on the way, and getting ready to take the big test, the test that i'll decide if i get to go to online school. I already have a perfect place that I could sit at when on my OASIS console, it’s not too far from my stack but it is still hard to get to considering my size. Yep, i’m fat, deal with it. Today I had to take a test for the new(ish) online OASIS school, if i got in the right scoring zone, I wouldn’t have to walk to school everyday and get chased by kids that might actually be insane. I had my doubts that I wouldn’t get in, though I was one of the smartest students at my middle school, I didn’t know what to expect from the test, but it was surprisingly easy, I almosted aced it, I went to my hideout where I would attend school from now on, made an avatar, and put it away in a cabinet that I built.

This story will be about the time when I came to Florida Virtual School Full Time (FLVS FT). At first, I was delighted when my mother wanted to put me and my brother to Atlantic Beach Elementary (ABE). But sadly, there wasn't enough space for me to go into the school. A day after we visited Atlantic Beach Elementary, we went to the beach and my mother met someone. Most of the stuff they talked about was education. One of the stuff they talked about was Florida Virtual School Full Time (FLVSFT). I heard what they said and it sounded awesome. So, my mother enrolled me to that school. I was so excited that I wanted to know everything about the website. After 3 years, I am still in the school. I am still so delighted, and here I am, writing about

Before I came to a virtual public school, I attended a private school and was homeschooled throughout middle school. My mom chose to homeschool my siblings and I because she was travel nurse, which caused us to move every year.

After the slow dawdle like walk up to “The Site”, with the slight trickle of the fresh mountain stream in the background. All I want is sleep, picturing my bright yellow hammock enveloped by a semi transparent school provided tarp. Soon enough, I am greeted by “The Site” only told to stay within the gully. I start with a little scan of the landscape, trying to find the perfect spot for my hammock to lay between two coniferous trees. No, no, no, after 20 minutes of scanning the landscape I find the perfect spot.

Virtual High school is becoming more and more popular. But is it really the best option for your child? My parents are planning on sending me to a virtual high school. But I totally disagree with that Idea. Here's why. There's no doubt that online schooling can’t get you the proper education that you need, But if your alwaysways on the computer, surrounded by no one but yourself and maybe a parent. Then how is it possible that you will be able to learn any social skills. When you first think of this it may not seem like a bad thing, but when really, it’s a huge issue that will shape your lifestyle.