Fiona Gannon
“
Stemming from character building, classic, hard work and self-dependent advancement, online courses have opened me up to a future I did not find possible even just a year ago.
”
– Fiona Gannon
Due to unfortunate familial and financial situations, I quickly was stunted in academic progress from 6th grade all the way until this, my senior year. Over the last year, however, my current school has learned of my personal situation; they have become dedicated and driven to allow me to graduate with my age group. In this personalized plan-using a mixture of an online program and in-class, traditional courses–I have caught up, and will be graduating with my peers, working alongside the modern options of digital lessons. Stemming from character building, classic, hard work and self-dependent advancement, online courses have opened me up to a future I did not find possible even just a year ago. Utilizing online learning, in my experience, can be the difference between a high school diploma and a GED, the difference between giving in to a difficult upbringing and fulfilling your highest degree of self-satisfaction at such a tender age. Through the compassion of Wyoming staff, and teachers overall, I was set onto a progressed track towards completing one of my first major academic hurdles.
Growing up, I did not believe I would achieve high school completion, and college was really just another phony pursuit. Despite this drilled in belief, I am planning on becoming a first generation college graduate. For crippling financial reasons, I was taken out of my 6th grade year just on the dawn of completion. My father put me into an unaccredited 'homeschooling' program well after a gap between my peers and I became painfully apparent. Through the years, my accomplishments and morale were low, and an academically driven career was not in my sights whatsoever. Going through a custody change, and being placed into a traditional public school, led me to conceive the notion that I can prove my disadvantage wrong and turn it straight onto its head.
Even if someone's experience came from something completely parallel to my situation, an online learning environment can most definitely still be turned to and implemented for the better. For an example, if a student fails to improve and learn from the traditional school environment of a classroom, perhaps he would progress more positively through a screen. Yet another, if a student fails classes on the eve of graduation, he surely would not want to have to repeat a year. Using an online program can easily be advanced on to replace failed classes in a shorter, more convenient amount of time. Whether it is in the beginning, middle, or end of the school-year, some students simply exceed applying a more modern medium to their academics.
Nowadays, teachers, parents, and nearly everyone involved with the education world, are trying to employ new methods to boost both schooling productivity and its average results. Some school districts update schedules, offer night classes, or transfers-it only makes sense to offer an agent through which many individuals attempt to self-teach with as it is. Everyone loves to hear a success story, and give the advantage to the ones without any other.
The use of technology is already being accepted into the traditional classroom. Naturally, a classroom can then be digitized to aid the failing student, the rushed, the easily distracted, or, in my case, the student left behind. If not for the ability to pursue high school that was made available to me, I would not have my sights set as high as they are. My goals and aspirations, just as an average student, are reeled in by what I have done up to this point in my life. Working with both tradition and new ideas, my plans have been able to balloon into large entities. Not restricted only to my case, but to many children in need of another option: online courses can be life changing.