CHESTERFIELD, N.H. — Chole McKeon, 17, of Chesterfield, has always had trouble with school work. Words and numbers would end up in the wrong place. She would write one word but mean to write another.
McKeon suffers from Attention Deficit Disorder as well as other spatial and learning disabilities, which made school extremely difficult, she said.
“It was very stressful,” McKeon said. “I would dread being in school the whole day and at the end. I would feel like I failed.”
This continued until her junior year of high school where she and her parents decided to take a new approach, online classes through the Virtual Learning Academy Charter School, New Hampshire’s first statewide online high school.
In June, McKeon and 11 other students were the first-ever graduating class of the program.
High school students who reside in New Hampshire are eligible to apply and once accepted may enroll for part-time or full-time studies, tuition free.
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