comment edited . I misunderstood the title . Thought you were talking about ladder ranking . <| sep |> Online charter schools may work for a very small , selective group of selfmotivated students with supportive parents . Unfortunately , in my experience , the kids who end up doing it are the ones who absolutely shouldn ' t be . I am evaluating a kid at my district in Ohio right now who recently came back from an online charter school , and his online attendance was something like 2540 %. If you missed that much time in a public school , they would file truancy charges against you and your parents . But with this , it ' s NBD . Imagine missing over half of a school year during those formative years . It causes damage that will never be fixed .