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1. I have not heard of 'online' high schools.

The daughter of the helicopter mom & dad goes to an online high school. ???

Segrin’s latest papers relied on interviews with more than 1,000 college-age students and their parents from across the nation. They found that many of the young adult kids are in touch with their parents constantly, with nearly a quarter communicating by text, phone or other means several times every day and another 22 percent reaching out once a day.

I called home once a week my first semester, on Saturday mornings. After that, even less. That was when telephones had cords & were plugged into the wall.