Whether walking to the computer lab or sitting in a cushioned computer chair at home, MISD students can now take Virtual School which allows course work that otherwise would not fit their schedule.

 Senior Alex Bertucci is enrolled in AP Biology and spends his third period block working on the assignments.

 “The course rigor is a lot less. It gives you more time to work,” he said.

Virtual School offers courses from Health to Calculus. In the past, the master schedule refused any student who wanted to take obscure classes. Counselors can now allow the students to take the class in their free period on a computer.

“They grade pretty fast. When I got home it was already graded,” Bertucci said. “It said ‘great job!’ the teacher is actually communicating with me.”

Each MISD campus has forty slots available for students wanting to try a new method of learning. At this point all slots have not been filled at Legacy, but administrators anticipate expansion in the program. Each semester extra slots will be filled as projected.

“The live chat with a teacher online sounds really cool,” Senior J.D. Canclini said. “I expect [the class] to be just like any other class.”

Canclini begins virtual school education in AP Spanish IV class in the coming days.

More Info: www.misdvirtualschool.org