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Thursday, November 05, 2009
More high school students are taking online learning courses - Julie Hubbard, Macon.com
Mary Persons High School is too small to hire someone to teach Chinese to the lone senior who wanted to take the course this year. But the school managed to work around it. During second period, senior Christopher Kennedy takes the class online via the state’s “virtual school.” He watches taped lectures and listens to audio of the language on a computer in the media center. "It’s not the most exciting way to do it, but it gets the job done,” said Kennedy, who hopes to major in international business one day.

 



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