How To Choose an Online High School and What to Avoid

Without a doubt, future growth in distance learning will happen at the K-12 level. We are fast becoming saturated with online college degree programs. And, for what it's worth, we are a country that has many people of adult age who do not have a high school diploma. Likewise, we have many students of high school age that are looking for alternatives to the public schools. The dramatic growth in homeschooling illustrates that point.However, and this is what some fail to understand, the online high school phenomenon is greater than just homeschoolers. Many of the high school age students participating do not identify themselves as homeschoolers and do not come from traditional homeschooling families.Determining which online high schools to avoid can be almost as tricky as determining which to choose. You will find programs that assert that they are accredited, claim that tuition is paid for by Fortune 500 companies, and say that they have thousands of graduates.While this all may be true, this tells me a few things:

• That the school may have made up its own fake accreditation.
• That there are companies out there that do not check closely enough. However, if you get caught, and you will eventually get caught, you will likely be fired. Even if, and this is important, even if you did not know it was a fake high school.
• Thousands of graduates means nothing except that some "school" was able to find that many people who did not know what they were doing.

My e-mail is full of students, both high school and college students, who come to me to help them fix their mistakes. The most common mistake is investing money into a school that was not a school.

mportantly, you cannot earn a high school diploma by taking a test online. You cannot earn a high school diploma in one week or one month. High school diplomas require real work.