Today I looked at the ACCESS website. ACCESS is an acronym for Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators & Students Statewide. The reason for ACCESS is to provide equal access to high quality instruction that will improve improve student achievement through distance learing opportunities.

There are definately some pros and cons with ACCESS. The major pro is that everyone gets a good education. Some rural schools can't offer Advanced Diploma, which is required by state law and ACCESS allows the rural school to offer it. A con is that there isn't a teacher in the class to help with hands on activities. The teacher will usually respond later through an email. There are definately more pros than cons. ACCESS allows rural students to take classes such as physics, calculus, and trigonometry. Therefore, ACCESS is accomplishing their goal, which is to provide additional educational offerings for all Alabama public highschool students.