Molalla Online High School student Kealohi Phillips is a typical teenager. She likes to hang out with her friends, spend time with her family and ride motocross. Like her peers, she spends a lot of time on her computer. However, unlike her peers, much of her time online is actually spent in school. What initially drew Kealohi to MOHS was the chance to have a flexible school schedule. What she has found this term is that not only does going to school online free up her time, but it also has removed some of the social pressures that she wasn’t even aware she was under.
“Here at online school we don’t have labels or the drama like you do at a normal high school. You don’t have to worry about the person sitting next to you or the person whose locker is five away from yours; here those things don’t matter,” Kealohi said. “I don’t have to deal with the day to day drama, I don’t have to try and look good and I don’t have to worry about what people are saying about me. I can focus solely on my school work.”
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