She now teaches fully virtually through the public, online school California Virtual Academies, having swapped desks for desktops. More Flexibility for Teaching StudentsThe number of virtual schools has grown, as has the number of U.S. children enrolled in them. There’s been an accompanying rise in the number of teachers instructing remotely via virtual schools. And while the virtual teachers were initially concerned about bonding with their students, they have found those worries largely unfounded. “But we have drawing programs or ways they can post their artwork; we find ways to adapt to it.”And that adaptation is largely worth it to virtual teachers.