The boys and girls of the Hospital Homebound program — in every school district in America — land in the virtual classroom because of their own personal health struggles, all of them debilitating and life-altering, some of them life-threatening. It is a classroom without walls, or desks, or in many cases, even faces they can see. But it is filled with the kind of heart and determination you don’t often find in school.

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As you may remember smaller class sizes was voted in– in 2002 and this year is the deadline to meet the guideline, but some school districts are fighting back.

What are the new rules of the class size amendment?

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Eau Gallie High is taking advantage of that by offering a unique pilot program this fall. It will offer one core class — a foreign language class — through Florida Virtual School.

That means the 35 students sitting in Eau Gallie’s computer lab practicing their language skills will technically be enrolled at the virtual school so Eau Gallie won’t have to comply with class size rules for that period. If they did, the school would have to limit the class to 25 students.

Eau Gallie will just assign the students to the class as they do with any other class.

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