Minnesota Education / Online high schools are niche some kids need - MARY BAUER,Pioneer Press

Kevin Johnson remembers the fourth grade painfully well. It was the year educators finally diagnosed the communication chasm that separated him from other children: He is a genius. "That was his worst year emotionally," recalls his mom, Holly. "He didn't mix well with the other students. Kids picked on him because he had a different vocabulary and spoke differently." Now 15, the math whiz from Farmington has a host of friends he met through his online high school, MTS Minnesota Connections Academy, and he's working at a pace more suitable to his talents. Last year, he finished a college-level honors calculus class.

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