School Promotion

During the fall months of 2009, we worked to promote our school of choice. We held an open house, inviting community members, legislators and media outlets to observe us as we demonstrated a typical school day in the Bohman household. We had many attend including a reporter from the Post Register.

Later she contacted us, requesting to come for a real school day with a photographer that she might include pictures with her story about online schooling. We were happy to oblige and spent December 21 visiting with her as the newspaper photographer documented our school day.

To our surprise, on Sunday, January 3, 2010, the excellent article ran on the front page of the paper. We were excited that the story merited this honor. The story is a co-promotion for our school (IDVA - Idaho Virtual Academy) and a new district virtual school (BDVA - Bonneville District Virtual Academy). Our school has been open for approximately 8 years, withstanding great prosecution from many educators who question the quality of a virtual education that is delivered in the home environment vs. a "brick and mortar" setting. IDVA students have proven all the typical "myths" of children schooled at home wrong with their high scores and many social activities.

Recently, our local school district decided to open their own virtual school using the same curriculum and technology as the IDVA. The one difference is that they let their patrons "piece-meal the curriculum and have the option to also attend some classes at their local "brick and mortar" schools. Virtual schooling is slowing moving into the main stream of possible options in education, which allow parents to customize their child's educational experience.