The newest high school in Nashville won’t have walls. Or desks. Or books.
Metro Nashville Public Schools will open its first virtual high school this fall. Courses will be offered entirely online and accessible to everyone from home-schooled students to Metro students looking for elective classes they can’t find at the school they attend.
The virtual high school is still under construction. The district has yet to decide which classes will be offered, how many students will be enrolled and how widespread the first year’s effort will be.
But it’s all part of the school district’s long-range goal to ensure that all students take at least one class online before they graduate.
“There’s an assumption that children today are completely plugged in,” said Keisha Ray, director of instructional technology for the school district, who is working this summer to organize the first classes at the virtual high school.
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