Last month we heard from Zairyn and Logan Mierau, aged 14 and nine respectively, about their experience with distance learning at Vista Virtual School. This month we hear from the third Mierau brother Samuel, age 11, about his experience as a VVS student. Like his two brothers, Samuel, a grade 6 student at VVS, leads […]

Distance learning is not a new phenomenon. Vista Virtual School has been in operation since 1996, and distance learning existed well before that – even before the advent of the Internet. Yet for the majority of students in Alberta and beyond, the COVID-19 pandemic brought about their first taste of full-fledged online education. For some […]