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Saturday, June 14, 2003
High School Is Virtual, but the Caps and Gowns Are Real - SARA RIMER, New York Times
The school superintendent, Nicholas Trombetta, took the stage in the ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel here. The musicians struck up "Pomp and Circumstance." The parents raised their cameras. It could have been any small town high school graduation. Except for one thing: Almost none of the 56 graduates, marching in procession in their royal blue caps and gowns, had ever met before. It was the third graduation of the Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School here, where the age of online learning and virtual classrooms has come to an old steel town. The graduates had emerged from cyberspace — from behind their computers in living rooms, bedrooms, basements and kitchens all over the state — to collect their diplomas, shake the hand of Dr. Trombetta, whom they had never seen before, and to meet one another in the fluorescent-lighted reality of the Sheraton ballroom.
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