As you may know, my oldest daughter is now attending high school online via the Penn Foster High School. Well, you can add another student to the roster of high schoolers who have left regular, traditional brick-and-mortar high school and decided to turn themselves toward earning their diploma online. This time it's my youngest daughter who has decided to transfer out of the local high school and is now working for her diploma with Penn Foster. She saw the flexibility and other benefits that my oldest daughter is enjoying and she decided that this was the way for her to go as well.

My youngest daughter has a much more social personality than my oldest. So we made sure we sat down and talked with her about the consequences of making the move. The biggest thing both her mother and I are worried about is that she's very much involved in clubs and enjoys other after school functions like the carnivals, the dances, the plays and shows that the school puts on, not to mention football games.

She managed to convince us that, as long as she gets to spend time with her friends and take part in the activities we do as a family, she'll be happy in her online high school. So, based on her conviction about being fine with getting her social "fix" from her friends rather than her classmates, we went down to her high school this week and took her out of class. She has been officially transferred to private school. It just so happens that this private school is an online school located in Pennsylvania and she'll attend all of her classes via the internet.

Technology is a beautiful thing.

One of the biggest advantages to having both of my two daughters going to school online is that I can better monitor their studies and I can also help them when they get stuck. Personally, while her mother has doubts about pulling her out of "regular" high school, I think this is going to work out very, very well.

So there you have it, now all three of us in my household who are attending school are attending school online. I guess distance learning is "all in the family" at our house!