Guest Commentary: Parent of Oregon Virtual Ed. student says 'Let Our Children Go'

My son attends the Oregon Virtual Academy (ORVA) "to fulfill his academic range of four different elementary and middle school grade levels in the same school year," David Atman wrote in the Oregon Register Guard.
He is " ' a special needs' seventh-grade student — catching up in sixth-grade English, fifth-grade math and fourth-grade history and art — or a talented-and-gifted fourth-grader accelerating his studies with fifth-grade math, sixth-grade English and seventh-grade science, four different grade levels in one year, half in middle school and half in elementary school, is cumbersome at best, and probably impossible in most public or private brick and mortar schools," Atman continued.
Atman added that there are many more reasons for choosing virtual schools exist.
Yet, he continued, some in Oregon have problems with expanding virtual education opportunities and making it easier for parents to guide their children to online opportunities.
Oregon’s Senate Bill 927, being discussed in Salem , ignores the recommendations in the report made by the state Board of Education, which was mandated by the Legislature in House Bill 3660 to give a virtual-school game plan to politicians, Atman wrote.
SB 927, as written, would close the existing two public virtual schools, would create a new administrative agency and take choice away from parents, he added.
Click here to read what Atman and other Oregon parents would like to see the Oregon legislature do to allow their children to go to virtual schools.