In July, Nancy Grossman argued for adjusting the state’s school funding formula in her column, “Where do charters fit in the education funding debate?” Last month, state Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa shared how the state is working to address funding inequities through the Promise Act.

Hopefully, the Promise Act will be passed during the Legislature’s upcoming session. In her column, Ms. Grossman shared some incorrect information about the school where I teach, the Greenfield Commonwealth Virtual School.

Rather than a charter school, we are a public school, and our own school district. Approximately 650 students from all around the commonwealth choose to attend GCVS. We celebrate our 10th year this year; we are not two years old, as the column stated.

Along the way, our name changed from the Massachusetts Virtual Academy to GCVS. As a virtual school — one of two in Massachusetts, together serving about 3,000 of the nearly one million students in grades K-12 — we have an advertising budget for parent outreach. Our students are a cross-section of kids from across the state.

According to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 57% of our students are considered high needs, 21% students with disabilities, and 48% are economically disadvantaged — all numbers that are higher than state averages.

Listening to our founders speak last year at graduation, I learned that our school originally started to help a young woman in the Greenfield School District who was trying to stay in school in spite of a serious medical condition. To this day, many of our students choose virtual schooling rather than attending a brick and mortar school due to medical concerns, anxiety and safety issues related to bullying.

Many of our students are with us because we record all of our live classes, allowing them to dance in the Boston Ballet, compete in sports, or pursue other talents. One of my students is an actor and can attend school after movie shoots while in Los Angeles. Students in Massachusetts are fortunate to have different pathways — public, charter and virtual schools — available to meet their needs.

Jack Czajkowski

Hadley