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Article posted: 7/5/2012 5:30 AM

District 128 offering first online courses to summer-school students

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For the first time, online English classes are offered this summer at Vernon Hills High School. The students work in a computer lab at their own pace. Teachers are there to guide them, help when needed and occasionally step in with some group lessons.

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Carmel High School student Joseph Januscz, 17, is among the teens taking a computer-based English class during summer school at Vernon Hills High School.

Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer

English teacher Tara Nieves helps 16-year-old Vernon Hills High School student Harold Torres with his assignment.

Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer

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A pair of computer-based English classes offered this summer at Vernon Hills High School mark District 128's first foray into the expanding world of online education. Twenty-two students are enrolled in the classes for the second semester of summer school, which began last week. Such e-classes already are used in Elgin Area School District U-46.