Local parents and students are invited to learn more at an information session about Insight School of Washingtons statewide public high school program on Monday, August 2, in Everett.

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WHAT:IQ Academy Washington, a school for sixth- through 12th graders

WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday

WHERE: 2300 Evergreen Park Drive S.W., Red Lion Hotel Olympia

WHAT:Insight School of Washington, a high school

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The session will run from 10-11:30 a.m. at Whitman College, in room 345 of the Hall of Science. The meeting is free.

Insight is one of several online high schools now offered in the state of Washington for students and families who are seeking an alternative to traditional schools.

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The three out of 10 who don’t graduate, however, often don’t make it because they have children, full-time jobs, health problems or other complications that hold them back.

That is – until now.

This year, some 230 students celebrated their graduation after receiving their diplomas from Insight High School.

If you’ve never heard of Insight High School, you might be familiar with its location – cyberspace.

Yes, these graduates are connected on the Web.

“We’re very techy here,” says Tommy Kraft, an Insight High School graduate.

And disciplined. Each one of these students completed their class work without seeing their teachers or classmates face to face. So was it like meeting for the first time – at their graduation at the Showare Center.

“A little bit nerve-wracking, definitely,” says graduate Cassie Odell.

Alysha Davis says, “You know you can read the discussion posts that we have so now you can kind of put names to faces, faces to names.”

Another grad, Ryan Abrahamson, says, “I was surprised I could even do it.”

Circumstances kept Ryan Abrahamson from graduating with his peers two years ago. He lives on a reservation in Eastern Washington. He said he’s glad he found Insight.

Abrahamson says, “The program was, everything in there, I could learn, and it was absolutely easy.”

Abrahamson told me he completed the program while working full time to support his girlfriend and 9-month-old baby. Now he’s headed to the Seattle Art Institute to study film-making.

And he’s not the only student graduating with a baby or young child at home. A number of young ladies explained that getting their diploma through an online high school is the only way they could do it.

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