The district is in its second year of offering a virtual high school where students take classes online.

“Right now I’m working on a vocabulary assignment for my chemistry class,” said Emily Locker, a student.

Emily is taking four classes this semester. She’s one of 63 Owasso students enrolled in the district’s virtual high school.

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The rest of the students live throughout the state and have transferred into White Oak’s virtual school, which is run by the Virginia-based online education provider K12.

State schools Superintendent Sandy Garrett said her concern was that taxpayer money was going to White Oak for the 920 virtual school students, and she wanted to make certain the students were achieving academically.

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Online High School

However, Parris also ruled that while the online charter school should serve as its own district, it can accept transfer students only during the open transfer dates — a period that already has lapsed for this school year.

Epic 1 on 1 Charter School sued the state for refusing to issue it a school number required for funding.

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That code will allow the charter school to receive funding and enroll students. The virtual school plans to begin operations on Sept. 1.

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Epic is a nonprofit group founded by Ben Harris, the former president of Advanced Academics, a Bricktown-based online education company.

Harris’ school would be unique in not being associated with a particular school district, but rather being a public school, privately operated and funded with state dollars. Students from anywhere in the state could transfer to the free school and take classes online.

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“I’m not happy with the education that they’ve been provided,” says parent Marla Crawley, describing the public school system, and on hand at a press conference/protest rally against the state department of education for throwing a roadblock up to an online school she had enrolled her two kids at, Epic, the first of it’s kind in the state.

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While online learning isn’t for everyone, it’s an effective option for students who aren’t served well in traditional settings and for students whose health or family situation might keep them from attending a traditional school. Online programs are attracting previously homeschooled students back into the public school system. Children can’t enroll in virtual schools without their parents’ consent and involvement, and parents are actively involved in monitoring their student’s academic progress.

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Sam Pool attends Advanced Academics, an online school.

He’s getting ready to start his senior year, but he won’t be walking into any classrooms; instead he’ll simply log on.

Sam, who is mildly autistic, has been going to school online for 3 years and is thriving.

Pool says, “I get to learn at my own pace which is wonderful.”

Rather than go to a traditional brick-and-mortar school, Sam communicates with teachers through a virtual classroom.

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That has become obvious as state education officials try to sort out whether to accredit a tiny, financially struggling school district so desperate to survive that the community voted earlier this year to close the high school. The question now isn’t so much about whether the White Oak district in Craig County can provide a quality education for the remaining local students — expected to number about 70 in the coming school year — in prekindergarten through eighth grade. The focus is the other 839 students the school district wants to serve online.

Are students online for six hours — the required length of a school day? How can first-graders stay on the computer that long? Are students full time or supplementing homeschooling? Are parents at home monitoring the children?

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