I have been having an on-going email discussion with someone who works at an online high school that is not free (and, no, it is not one of our featured schools, but, yes, it is listed on this site). He seems to think that I spend too much time focused on the free online high schools and not enough time on the commercial ones.

My first advice to him was to look at our featured schools. A grand total of zero of them are free and they get more press around here (via that link to the left of each page and the graphics in the listing) than any other type of schools.

My second advice to him was to look at who can attend those free ones. By and large, it is traditional-aged high school students. No adults need apply. True, a few let students as old as twenty or so attend, but they are the exceptions.

Truth be told, for some students, free online high schools are the absolute right choice. They just are, but that being said, for some students, the commercial programs are the absolute right choice. There are just too many factors to consider to believe that the choice should come down to cost alone. I certainly don’t believe that and I hope that you don’t, either.

It is very interesting to get these sorts of comments, though. I have been doing some thinking lately about what happens in the blog and I encourage you to look toward some changes coming soon!