Public School Comes Home

Laurie Welch:

Chance Bell does well academically, has played the piano since he was 5 years old and competes with a local swim team in the summer.

But the 12-year-old home-schooled boy from Rupert has hit the age where he wants to be more involved with his peers.
His parents, Jennifer and Mark Bell, are considering enrolling their eldest son in the state-funded Minidoka Virtual Academy that Minidoka County's school district will launch this fall.

"He wants more friends and he's interested in playing baseball," his mother said.

The district's full-time online program will offer students in grades K-8 core classes in language arts, math and science, along with a variety of electives and access to the district's extracurricular activities and athletic teams. The program, operated with software from the private online education company K12, includes regular testing after lessons and student participation in the Idaho Standards Achievement Test.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 1, 2011 1:32 AM
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