Permanent Virtual Classes Now Offered at Some U.S. Schools to Protect Vulnerable Children
Fourth-graders at the iLearn Virtual School in Dallas began class Thursday morning with an icebreaker. Their teacher Sumala Paidi asked them, “What superpower would you choose for yourself, if you could pick any?”The dozen children in the class responded with wishes for super speed or the ability to fly. One girl chose invisibility, so she could “take a cake, and eat it all myself.”
It could be a scene from a school classroom anywhere in the U.S. Except these students, unlike nearly every student learning at…