[SoftballMominVA]

As far as the cheating goes, Virtual Virginia requires all tests to be monitored by a school employee and in fact, only that school employee has the password to open up the test. Quizzes though are on a trust basis, and of course papers are just like in the classroom...if the teacher doesn't trust that the paper is truly that student's, then he/she has to set up a way to verify it.

Based on watching my daughter and her friends on the OnLine classes - I do not think they should replace the brick/mortar school, but are a supplement - a very, very valuable supplement, and would be a very poor replacement.

[4Liberty]

Thank you so much for all your responses.

Because of privacy issues, we can’t do a retina scan or take a finger print of our students, over the internet, to roughly verify they are the actual respondents on quizzes and so forth.

I think that outsourcing exam assessment is the way to go — contracting with Sylvan or Kaplan

http://www.kaplan.com/kaplaninternational.htm

allowing them to process test taking in a proctored environment for a small fee for OL institutions, whether in Japan or Billings Montana (these being hypothetical locations, of student OR school)!

Thanks again,
4L