13-year-old Alicyn Mabry and her mother Annise Mabry select her course schedule on the Georgia Cyber Academy, bully free.Like so many other families around the country 13-year-old Alicyn and her mother Annise Mabry are busy keeping up with the demands of the school year.
However, instead of preparing to go to a local school, Ali takes classes at home. Instead of a classhello kitty shirtroom, she logs onto her laptop for online lessons. Instead of a teacher, her mom is her instructor.
Its a lot better, its a lot more fun and it really brings out a lot of the things I found enjoyable in school, says Ali, decked out in a hot pink Hello Kitty T-shirt, rows of colorful plastic bracelets dangle from both of her arms.
She used to attend a public middle school near their Conyers, Ga. home just outside of Atlanta, but this year for 8th grade, shes relying on the online Georgia Cyber Academy for her curriculum.
Ali and her mother say excessive bullying from classmates on and off school grounds brought on Alis transition out of a traditional school.
They were just really mean, the pushing, the shoving, hitting, slapping. Basically it was just pretty much assault every day, she says. With girls it was hair, my face, the way I dressed, the way I looked. The way I talked. Things that you really cant help. I felt like that was my only reason for coming to school; just to be pushed around.
Ali says as much as she loved learning, it was a struggle every day.
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