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The Baltimore County Public Schools is set to launch a virtual learning program this fall, but some parents have had trouble signing up their children.The official deadline to enroll was Monday, and now, some parents who missed the deadline are afraid it s too late. The district has been getting an earful from some concerned parents who are demanding a second chance to sign up their children.Baltimore County s new virtual learning program will offer virtual instruction to students in kindergarten through 12th grade.But signing up has been anything but easy for Ayesha Gardner-Carrington, whose two children attend Chadwick Elementary School in Woodlawn, where she s also the vice president of the Parent Teacher Association. I went to the link, I started to fill out the form. The first thing they asked was the student ID number, Gardner-Carrington said.That was the first challenge she faced. Gardner-Carrington said she needs the virtual learning program because of her family s medi