What's your experience with online summer school? (Ranting about my school district's)

Posting an update about this. D is working her way through the 17 day first semester course. It’s stressful, but I found a tutor who is a retired Latin teacher and am paying her to come over a few times and help D understand some of the material and stay on track to finish in the 17 day limit.

D can’t take the second semester through our district’s online summer school because the timing of the 15 day Session 2 conflicts with a debate camp she’s attending. But the good news is that I found an alternative online option that offers the exact same curriculum from another provider with flexible timing. In fact, this provider (Florida Virtual School) appears to be the original creator of the Latin curriculum that our district uses so the lessons track exactly.

It took me some online detective work to figure this out.The user interface mentions Pearson so I googled and found my way to this information about how school districts can utilize Pearson’s online learning services: https://www.pearson.com/us/prek-12/products-services-teaching/online-blended-learning-solutions/gradpoint.html. This explains why there are so many course offerings from my district. There’s a course catalog here: https://www.pearson.com/content/dam/one-dot-com/one-dot-com/us/en/pearson-ed/downloads/K12SM16882_GPCourseCatalog_F_singlepgs-lr.pdf. From there I figured out that Pearson gets its Latin curriculum from the Florida Virtual School (FLVS). https://www.flvs.net/global-school. I’ve compared our district’s assignments and lessons to those described on the FLVS website and they are the same. The FLVS offers flexible start and end dates, and you can take the class at your own pace taking up to a semester’s worth of time to complete. So I’m going to have her do the second semester with FLVS and then apply for credit from my school district. It’s more expensive ($400 per semester for FLVS vs. $185 for the school district) but worth it to me for the timing flexibility.