By far the most popular article on this website was a guest post by Vicki Parnell about Distributed Learning.
The comments and questions have continued over the years and Vicki has graciously answered every one. It’s now time for a short update from Vicki:
Update, February 2020:
The response to this article has been astonishing – almost 7 years later, I continue to receive emails from parents who have found my guest blog and have questions about DL learning. I’m so glad that other parents have been able to find a starting point for exploring school options they may not have known about in the past.
My own children have now finished their public school educations. One graduated from EBUS and benefited from an additional transition year there; the other moved back into the bricks-and-mortar school system (where he received excellent support from his high school’s resource teaching staff). He graduated last year.
Because I no longer have current experience with the DL system, if you have questions about this topic I would encourage you to join Facebook, where there are a number of active communities of parents who are involved in the DL and home learning experience. For example, this group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/385597354924709/
“BC Parents and Service Providers of Special Needs DL and Homeschoolers” is very active and has almost 2500 members on the date I’m writing this update. There you can talk to families whose knowledge of the DL system is much more up to date than mine!
Some of the information in my original blog is out of date (not surprising as it is now 7 years since I collected the information). Keep in mind that the best source of information about your DL options is always the DLs themselves!
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