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LANCASTER — The most recent graduate of the Lancaster Digital Academy is Mona Jean Melissa Michelle (Perry) Stone. Stone is the daughter of Mona and Herbert Stone of Lancaster. Her future plans securing employment, and then exploring the medical field.
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Rushmore Academy, currently in its second year, is in the former Colonial Acres Elementary School at 565 Amherst Drive. Its students include teens struggling in traditional schools and dropouts who want another try at a high school diploma.
Work consists of classroom instruction and online lessons. Students can get more one-on-one attention than in traditional schools. They can work at their own pace and, when possible, set their own hours.
For Braddy it’s a way to go to school and work at the same time. Rushmore director Frank Volenik said that out of his current 113 students, 16 work almost 40 hours a week and more than 50 who employed.
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Mississinawa Valley School District in Darke County is experimenting with online learning for those pesky snow days. When school is called off in the rural county, students can log in to get the day’s lesson. Students then have two weeks to complete the assignments, which allows for those students who may not have computers or internet access at home.
In this age of increasing technological advances, with more colleges providing online learning and businesses demanding a tech-savvy workforce, the approach not only provides students with their day’s learning but also teaches them invaluable online skills as well as the discipline to learn on their own.
It’s a win-win for students and the state.
Instead of two more snow days when the only learning our students do is how to build a snowman at a cost to Ohio taxpayers, this approach promises to have long-term benefits, and solutions such as these are where our next governor should be looking.
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More than 29,000 K-12 students attend school online in Ohio, about five times more than did seven years ago.
They log onto their computers from home without ever stepping into a classroom.
Some are in kindergarten.
Doug and Linda Sellers of Beavercreek took the virtual leap from the traditional bricks-and-mortar public schools when they enrolled their four children in an e-school three years ago. The couple said it was a difficult decision and a tough sell to relatives, many of whom are teachers.
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The Morgan Local School District improved from an 89.8 percent graduation rate last year to 93.1.
Johnson said through research she’s found the majority of students who drop out of John Glenn High School did not begin school in the East Muskingum district, they more than likely have come in at a later grade.
“What I mean by that is they would be students who may have come into our system under the foster care system, maybe they are transient kids who have moved several times,” Johnson said.
She said she pulled files of all of the students who have dropped out in the past five years and the majority of students fell into those categories. She said she and district administrators and teachers then began putting a support system in place for those students.
“That’s where the Care Teams became involved and we’ve also added Apex, which is an online credit program we have that students who are behind on their credits can take courses to catch up or if they’re absent for high percentages of time,” Johnson said.
Mark Neal, Tri-Valley’s superintendent, said there is programming in place for students who may “fall through the cracks,” like online classes they can take from home, for students for some reason or the other, have missed class.
“We’ve made a pretty conservative effort to target those students and make sure we find a way to keep them on track to graduate,” Neal said.
Passing the graduation tests are key, he said.
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