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Friday, January 11, 2008
Public school in virtual privacy - KAREN AYRES SMITH. The Dallas Morning News
Victoria McClure-Esqueda, 8, squeezes her eyes shut to envision the correct answer to a math problem at home in Irving with her mother, Jenifer McClure. Victoria attends school online, but workbooks are still in the equation. The Irving 8-year-old is one of hundreds of students across North Texas who have enrolled at the Texas Virtual Academy at Southwest, an online public school that opened to area students for the first time in 2007. The students work at home and study a curriculum created by a contracted company, but they can earn the same credits as students who attend any other public school in the state. For Victoria, online learning means studying some advanced fourth-grade courses and, perhaps more important, not slacking off.
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