Katerina Christhilf is training to become a ballerina. She dances four days a week, up to eight hours on Fridays, when most seventh graders would be at school. That’s why Katerina goes to school online.
“Sometimes I’ll study in the morning and I’ll do a few classes and then I’ll go to ballet for maybe, like, three or four hours and I’ll come back home and do some more,” she said.
An estimated quarter of a million students in Kindergarten through 12th grade were enrolled in full-time online schools last year, a 25 percent increase over the previous year. K12 Inc., a for-profit company, runs many of the programs, contracting with school districts that receive state aid for online education.
For the rest of the article, go to Online K-12 schooling on the rise
