The New Constitution Virtual Academy

8 semesters total.
Each semester is one half day, or four hours (9am-1pm/1pm-5pm).
Most classes can be taken at school, those that are only at school are tracks six, seven, eight.
Martial Arts/Robots track, Constitution/Gun Traning track, and Law Enforcement/Military/Astronaut track.
It is encouraged that these classes are taken after the earlier numbered classes, but it is not a strict requirement.
There is a discount for taking both half days of 10% dollars less, so that both classes each day would cost 90, or 450 a week.
Some classes can be repeated, while even more do have progression, but progression is not absolutely necessary.

48 students max capacity at school (max of online school is 800+).

It is a four year school, with a minimum age of 12 years old, or beginning of Middle School.
There is one campus and students may be dropped off and picked up: 9-1, or 1-5 or 9-5, with late pickup tolerated until 6pm and early drops offs at 7:30am.
There is a bus service.
Kids are highly segregated in comfortable, private computer booths in a large room swarming with teachers. The booths do not close, but are akin to cubicles at many workplaces. The walls are higher, and the cubicles are deeper.

Kids at home are monitored by the school while on the computer. If the kid is away from the computer for more than fifteen minutes, the home is contacted. If there is not immediate response, the school responds by calling an school officer to go to the home. If the child is not at home the school officer calls the police for truancy.
Some computer literacy is expected, and, use of the home computer...if the child does not own one they must be dropped off at school.

The child is not expected to take both half day classes, but if they are dropped off at the campus they must be removed from campus.
Kids participating from home can take fewer classes and still graduate.

This school is private. I suggest you review the Board of Director, and the Teachers who are at the school and/or who are online with students.

Any student may take classes for 50 dollars a half day, or 95 dollars for a full 8 hours.
The school has a part time employment agency for placing teens in local jobs, for short hours.

This school takes in aggressive boys and girls, or otherwise students of Middle and High School age limited to being at home yet interested in the Military. The blind, deaf and otherwise disabled, by emotional issues even (agoraphobic or obese) or aggression issues, or, those students whose temperament is suited to the Military, or STEM programs.

Literacy levels are minimal. Illiterate kids are engaged through adequate speech, and from even elementary level of reading and writing they are engaged in those problems that challenge them at that level.
Kids interested in Sports are encouraged.

Graduation depends upon passing the GED, which is given as the final test.


The New Constitution Virtual Academy

Curriculum

1. Interactive Games/Simulations/Math: (Done from Home or at school) 4/4/4 weeks
Class size 8-120
2 semesters

First is played a realistic action oriented military game. Each student has their own booth at the school, or, can play from home after downloading the software.
The school campus will have a small capacity, however, the larger game may be engaged by many from home. This program is progressive over the years and may be taken alongside another class, repeated each semester, as it has tracks which identify and gauge and remain interacting with the student, creating a picture of what the student is deficient in, at first, and then tested over the multiple courses. As a student falls behind in some difficulty inherent in the teaching enabled by the software, a teacher will be online with the student and coach them through the problem so that they can catch up....like Obi Wan talking to Luke.
That is a option, to take it more than one semester, as well.

During this game, the students get to know each other only through Avatars in the game.
After the first two weeks of free for all gameplay, they are paired up and communicate for one week, the last week they form teams of five.
Gameplay consists of typing and joystick and other motion capture technology challenges of various quality. One must read a map and icons on the map. One must interpret sounds, and figure out mazes. Fix electronic equipment, break codes on computers, build defenses...etc.
While one is playing the game is also interrupted to show Mathematical/Historical/Patents/Quotes from literature, as configurations superimposed over these simulations of those shoot em ups most boys adore...
These interruptions include the 3-d frame of the simulated objects, trajectory diagrams exhibiting numbers and describing mathematical functions....use with various weapons (WW1 machine gun, B-52 Pilot, Sniper: and the ethics of warfare upon review of performance (no looting, no terrorizing, retreat instead of what the kid did which was always attack). This ethics of warfare happens every time, and if the lesson is to be repeated it is also discussed in detail and engaged.
The simulation does stop at the end of the day and perhaps some days then the teacher need only appear to review and engage the students in various discussion, but always there is ethics review!
Also, answering then questions based on this presentation of Math, a pedagogical interruption that may seem jarring, wherein, there is great effort to streamline the problems within the context of the game simulations.
After the first four weeks the game changes: they all play defense.
This has engineering challenges in building, and creating logic and strategics...thinking ahead.
The last part of the first semester the student forms into groups of four, and they play this simulation but it has intensive logical and strategic thinking, use of diplomacy is usually next. One can also get a lot of points and then give out points as Diplomatic credit.

Anyway, This is a one semester subject. It can be repeated again and again as the lessons provided become more complicated, like fixing the electronic device is twice as complicated each time the class is taken, so eventually students are experiencing limitations, and must team up.

The teacher can run students through the problems (and they can rejoin the game when this delay occurs for long enough) so that, like Obi Wan Kenobi, the student can hear a voice...the teachers, helping them through the steps.


2. History/Writing/Computers (Done from Home or at school) 4/4/4
Class size: 6
2 semesters

The Kids play Civilization 6, as a group game, the first month.
During these four weeks, a History Documentary is shown. After the documentary, the student must answer short answer questions, on the computer. Every semester is different.
The next month writing, as a code, with different writing styles and systems, is discussed, in a historical orders, as runes, then cunieform, then ideograms...etc.
The last month is the history and technology of computers. Mostly just watching doc vids and answering questions, though there is a computer assembly lab.


3. Mathematics/Engineering/Science (Done from Home or at school) 2/2/2/2/2/2
Class size: 12
1 semester

Teaches the uses of various Simulation software, such as software that is used in simulating space station construction, Hiways, etc.
This actually teaches use of the most professional scientific software...teaching the interfaces with each, perhaps one every other week, so six programs:
weeks 1 and 2: Physics (1st day learning interface) with Ballistics, Planetary Collisions, Speed of Astronomical bodies and space flight, Weather),
Weeks 3 and 4: Chemistry,
Weeks 5 and 6; Math (Calculus, Trig, Algebra, with very little computation and more is stressed the application...sorta like the final result of the smart in mathematics kids virulently protesting not be able to use the calculator circa 1908),
7th +8th week Space Engineering,
9th + 10th week Civil Engineering,
11th + 12th week Robotic Engineering


4. Foreign Language/Diplomacy: 6/6 weeks (home or school)
Class size 6
Every semester
Where the literate kids get their outlet: teachers include discussions with Colonels and other Military Personnel, reading of War History (starting with the American Revolution and ending, at the end of the semester at Syria). Then Diplomatic History, featuring less studied facts about the diplomacy between Nations, which will have a History Professor to lecture and interact with the kids. Different lecture/interview discussion each semester.
Max size per class: 6
Languages are arranged through expert tutors. Any language is available, and we stress Russian, Persian, Chinese, and Arabic in addition to German, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
One per semester, can be taken repeatedly or another language engaged.


5. Martial Arts/Team Tactics/Remote Operated Vehicles: 4/4/4
On campus
Class size: 24
Every semester

At school. Martial Arts is a rotating forum of different methods of martial arts, each semester one is different.
Team Sports is not Basketball and Football and Baseball and Volleyball. These sports use interactive tools and are generally small squad military operations, including an optional camp out.
(No parent or student is liable for damaged equipment, but lets keep that quiet and not tell the students!)
Drones, underwater remotes, simulation of controlling a remote vehicle on Mars, handling visual and auditory files drawn from these devices, like examining maps.


6. Constitution/Law/Gun training (like drivers ed): 6/6 weeks
On campus
Class size: 24
1 semester

6 weeks: Perhaps controversial, however, we wish to have the students engage in talking about the Constitution, in small online class rooms, over a Semester. Once per week an amendment is address, and one hour MWF the student listens to the reading, and is then asked to speak. Like a conference call. Not type, but speak. They can turn off or on, they might get mad and turn off, so there is a counter....but its only a way to identify capacity to engage in discussion.

6 weeks: Gun Training is at school. A shooting range, but again, each student is isolated. What if a student has an accident with a gun? Well, we dont actually use bullets, and the use of the guns is constantly monitored by the teacher, who can shut them all off automatically.
The guns themselves shut down for all kinds of reason...being leaned too far down after activating for fire...or, being jerked or swung in some way unlike recoil, and being turned toward any other object than at the firing range....itll be a cool firing range too.
Otherwise, using the gun is taught step by step by licensed gun use trainers. Video is captured of the all the kids and a top gun is awarded in school.


7. Law Enforcement/Military/Astronaut (at School) 4/4/4 weeks
On campus
Class size 24
1 semester

All kinds of equipment and theatrical simulations and re enactments, study in the classroom, and then for Astronaut studying Scuba Diving/operating weightless, wearing gear, being exposed to weightlessness through flight participation, classes in the Wind tunnel, climbing a structure.


8. Playground/Lunch/Health: 24 weeks
"On campus" eight semesters
At "school" for  online they can eat lunch and meet each other and chat on the school network.
Generally students socialize, like at lunch. They can organize games like recess or read. They are highly monitored. Lunch is from local caterers.







After school program is board games.

Emphasis in the curriculum is on Non ideological, or clearly labeled and eloquent ideological positions, as in the case of History and Writing, Constitution and Law, and Foreign Language/Diplomacy/Cultural Studies.
Emphasis is also on Historically accurate simulations, which are some games. The Historically accurate games involve other customs, such as Diplomacy.
Also, these games are adapted to teach facts, test on fact, and require short essay answers, which interrupt game play but are also lessons embedded in game play, such as Math and Electronics, Hacking, Operating RV's, Astronaut training...
Emphasis finally on adapting the presentation of Interactive Games...the games which we see are directly military squad or assassin simulations, albeit mostly historically accurate.
...these kind of Games are re programmed, as well adapted to strictly realistic History; in so being, they are embedded with group online work training, engineering simulations, research projects, constructions projects, including Space and Rocket Launching simulations, so that the violence of the game is slowly integrated with a larger world.
All feature exercises in Engineering simulations, which does continue much with the game part that is the shoot em up.