EdVisions Off-Campus High School is a pretty different school from the norm. Actually, it's the only project based, online school in the whole United Sates.
I sort of take the school for granted, because I've been homeschooled so I don't really realize or notice as much as other people how different it is from traditional school. It's interesting to really look at this school once in a while and think, "wow, this is really an amazing school."
The reason I'm thinking of this right now is because the state of Minnesota is projecting a 935 million dollar budget deficit. And the thing that the state spends most money on is education. EdVisions Off-Campus is a charter school, which means it gets its funding from the state and taxes. When the state is in financial trouble, programs are going to be cut and new money saving legislations are going to arrive. That's not a bad thing necessarily, but it does mean that our school might come under scrutiny because it's so different from all the other schools. We are affected by legislations for charter schools, and legislations for online schools.
It's sort of strange all the things that the government has charter or online schools do to make sure they're meeting the standards. It is good to have things like that, because the schools are using tax payer's money so they should be doing a good job, but sometimes it just seems like busy work and it doesn't even help show if the school is actually helping all its students or not.
It's really weird, all these economic problems. It's not like there is less money in the world now. There is still the same amount I think. I don't think all the bills and coins disappeared over night did they?
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