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A school board in South Carolina has launched a pilot program to get rid of snow days and instead have students work from home when the weather turns treacherous. Beyond depriving schoolkids of the joys of weather-enforced truancy, the plan will exacerbate the region's digital divide for student who don't have internet access at home.
Anderson County School District Five will be the first region to participate in the pilot program this upcoming school year. In the past, Anderson County had makeup days tacked on to the end of the school year in lieu of days missed due to bad weather, but most kids ended up just skipping them, according to a local news report.
Students from grades 3 through 12 in the school board are already given Chromebooks to use at home, so in the event of a snow day or other inclement weather that causes a shutdown, kids will be expected to log on from home, communicate with teachers, and complete assignments.
Source: MotherBoard
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday August 05 2018, @01:11AM
Out of curiosity, did you bother to look at the materials I linked to, or just criticized them without bothering to see how they work?
Because there is repetition. In fact, there is in some ways more repetition than in a typical math curriculum -- it's just that you circle back to topics periodically over several years rather than "Today we will learn a simplified algorithm to solve this symbolic kind of equation. Now go home and do 1-49 odd (which are all basically the same sort of problem)." And then you see that kind of equation on the next test, and then you may not see it again for three years.
Instead, you will get the algorithms reinforced over time, much more effectively (like language learning) with gapped repetitions. And you'll use those symbolic methods for actual application problems, rather than primarily abstract symbolic manipulation.