At last week’s rally, some held ”Respect for Cyber Schools” signs. Michelle Nuss and other students set up laptops in the Capitol lobby to show lawmakers they can study from anywhere.
”They need to fund this. No, they need to expand this,” said Michelle’s mom, Tammy Sommerville, who has been loaned a desktop computer from Connections Academy. ”In my personal opinion, within 10 years brick-and-mortar schools will be obsolete.”
Another mom with kids in fulltime online schools, Tillie Elvrum of Colorado Springs, said she’s getting anxious waiting for lawmakers to debate the future of online schools.
”It’s frustrating. It can be scary for families,” said Elvrum, whose 15-year-old son J.D. has been going to school online since third grade. ”I just don’t want to see us singled out in a negative way.”
”We’re still having to prove this works, and this clearly works for thousands of students,” said Lori Cooney, president of the Colorado Coalition of Cyberschool Families and an Aurora mother of two who attend online schools. ”It doesn’t work for everybody. But it does work.”
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