Does your local public middle school offer virtual/online coursework?

[TwoEdgedSword]

I'm looking into this option for my rising 8th grader.

He is needing some decent sports coaching which the homeschool teams don't offer. He would need to take a few classes in order to participate in the m.s. sports, but our local school dosn't offer online middle school courses and we don't want to send him there every day.

 

I'm thinking of reaching out to the next closet school or asking why our local middle p.s. doesn't offer this, as their h.s. does.

 

Thanks for any input!

[Arcadia]

Our school district don't for K-12. They use ALEKS for remedial so that kids can do afterschool at the school's computer room or at the public libraries but that is on top of the B&M class. We don't have partial enrolment anyway, only dual enrolment at community college for the B&M high schoolers subjected to the high school guidance counsellor's approval.

[Lucy the Valiant]

Our state has a virtual charter that is open (either part-time OR full-time) to middle school and high school kids, but our local middle school doesn't have anything online. (And I'm not sure, but I'd be surprised if our high school does; usually it works the other way, that the high school kids need something not offered there, so they enroll at the statewide charter.) Not sure how that works for sports, though, in our state.

[J-rap]

I haven't heard of a middle school that offers online courses.  Our local hs does, but that's only if you're already a student there and the particular class you want isn't offered there.  Then, they help arrange an online option for that class (if it's offered) through a state online school.

 

I will say that there are some classes at our local middle school that are only three days/week, such as art, choir, and band.  I don't know how it is at the middle school where you live, but perhaps something like that would be an option.

[Lilaclady]

Ours do. We have a county virtual school and the state virtual school. The kids will log in and do the subjects while

In school.

[Dmmetler]

There is a state virtual school, but it's all or nothing.

 

I did get a post from eIMACS about a Florida county (Broward, I think) that was allowing gifted middle school kids to do eIMACS as their math class, which seems like a really good strategy (my DD didn't like eIMACS as much as AOPS, but it's a lot easier to schedule a self-paced asynchronous class than a live synchronous one).

[Arcadia]

 

I did get a post from eIMACS about a Florida county (Broward, I think) that was allowing gifted middle school kids to do eIMACS as their math class, which seems like a really good strategy (my DD didn't like eIMACS as much as AOPS, but it's a lot easier to schedule a self-paced asynchronous class than a live synchronous one).

 

My kids are looking into eimacs CS class. They want an instructor they could email, instead of forums only.

 

Here Aleks math is offered for free, EPGY used to be free for my district's title one schools but not after they change to GiftedandTalented.  Some kids use Stanford OHS with parents paying. However they are still in school during school hours though. They just use the classroom computers or the computer lab.  The Kindergarten classroom has 6 computers in each class (excluding teacher's laptop) for example.

[Joshin]

We have a county virtual school that is open to all county residents - including homeschoolers (my oldest took math through it). It's open to MS and HS, and I heard they are adding elementary. There is also K-12 virtual school available to residents in the state. There's also deals between other counties, I know no details though. I just know some out-of-county homeschoolers that use our county's virtual school because their county doesn't have one. They had to get a waiver or pay a fee, or something. We are able to take advantage of school classes in services here, as homeschoolers, per state law without having to enroll in any other classes.