Student compares homeschooling and college
By Marissa Shea
Observer Contributor
Sarah (last name withheld) is nineteen and is physically attending school for the first time.
Sarah was enrolled in Connections Academy, a Commonwealth Virtual School that offers online schooling from pre-K to 12th grade. The school was founded in 2002 and has since provided “personalized learning” for students online. She was enrolled in this program for the entirety of her grade school education and was not very fond of it.
“I didn’t like it – I like being taught by a teacher and it makes school feel twice as hard when you’re self-taught,” said Sarah. As a child, Sarah’s parents helped to teach what she couldn’t teach to herself, but as she grew older they became less involved in helping with schoolwork.