At her laptop, junior Ellie West takes notes on a pad. West is currently in Virtual Campus High. “I like to use sticky notes for individual thoughts,” West said. “I like that I can put them on my wall or move them around.”

Being the new kid at virtual school

Fatema Rehmani, Conceptual Editor-in-Chief

We can all recall that “first day” feeling in August, an obscure mixture of excitement and nervousness. Typically, in a few days, that feeling subsides, and we fall into a routine.

Now, however, in the stretch of the third quarter, virtual students who were “new” this past August have still not come to know their classmates, community or school.