You know that moment when you're sitting in Math class, and you finally figure out how to do the problems up on the board, but nobody else understands? Don't you feel like you're on top of the world or like God has graced this classroom with your presence? I mean come on! Even the teacher keeps messing it up!
It's one of the best feelings ever, but it's also one of the sacrifices of cyber school.
Let's look on the flip side of my first hypothetical story. You're sitting in ripetizioni di matematica online, and the teacher is going over something totally new that involves fraction, imaginary numbers and I think I just saw a little pi in there. You know that you need to focus because if you don't get an 'A' on this test then you will either not pass this course or be allowed to go out with your friends. But your eyes start to close slowly, and you start day dreaming about that cute new student eating pie. The bell rings, and you wake up quickly.
What are you going to do? The test is tomorrow and you don't even know the name of what you are doing!
Well in public school you would be able to go to the math teacher sometime after or before class, and they would be able to explain it to you in person by looking over your work, pointing out what you did wrong, answering questions you had or going through an example with you.
Then you finally understand the lesson get that 'A' on your quiz, and the whole school throws you a huge party that slowly fades out to a feel good song and end credits.
But what in the world happens if you don't understand how to do a math problem in cyber school?
If you don't understand the first time around what the math lesson is trying to teach you it can become very difficult to understand. You might read the lesson 100 times in a row, and still not understand what they are trying to get you to do.
So what now?
Well, you could always try to find another website using Google that explains the lesson in a different way. That can get very confusing if you don't know enough about the lesson to look up the correct thing because a lot of places use different vocabulary. You can also look up videos on YouTube, but then you run into the same problem.
Another tool the cyber schools really push is messaging your teacher what your question is. This will usually work, but it can be pretty difficult to write out exactly what you don't understand about the problem.
These are some things to keep in mind when deciding whether or not to do cyber school. Subjects like math and grammar can be hard to understand for most people without a real live person explaining the problem to them. If you don't usually understand math class, and it's something you really struggle with, then I would recommend two things.
One you stay in public school (better than failing, right?), or two, you find a cyber school that has online scheduled classes where you can instant message with teachers, and have a visual of their class.