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I am one of those parents that know virtual education is instrumental in the well-being of my daughter. I have 4 children. Three of them are enrolled in the Wisconsin Virtual Academy. One of them has special needs. She has autism.
My daughter, under a brick and mortar school, would be just a number. She would be yet another child in the spectrum, diagnosed and shuffled through the maze of special education in an already budget-tight school district. Well-meaning and caring teachers in brick and mortar schools simply cannot provide the constant care and interaction that my daughter needs. She would be denied the constant one on one attention that she desperately needs in order to achieve learning. For example, my daughter has mastered the concept of addition and subtraction. This sounds relatively simple to most parents, but not for my daughter. This concept was foreign. Today we rejoice that she has mastered this skill, and we look forward to more concepts being mastered with her God-given potential.
I now have an option in my daughter's education. My daughter has the option to have dedicated parents, along with a dedicated special education teacher, working side by side to achieve a common goal. I can get feedback from a teacher that has the experience, the expertise, the information and the compassion to work along with me as a partner in her education and not as an adversary working against her. I also have a wonderful regular education teacher who may not know all there is about autism, but is willing to learn and work in collaboration with us to achieve the common goal. I have access to a full IEP that functions to provide the services that she needs in order to succeed in this world.
This is why I am thankful that our family has been given this option, to continue to be responsible for our children's education, and work in collaboration with caring and qualified teachers that improve the lives of our children everyday. These teachers are working for the same common goal, to provide a "Class A" education to not only my children, but to all of the children enrolled in WIVA
Michelle
La Crosse, WI
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