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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, @01:37AM (1 child)
I should also note that this works at Exeter because math classes have ~10-15 students and ALL are expected to participate in constant discussion, presenting their work to the rest of the class, etc. So there's nowhere to hide. If you don't get something, your deficits and misunderstandings will be rapidly sorted out in class discussion.
With larger classes or without good teachers as discussion facilitators, this approach may not work as well.
(Score: 3, Touché) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Sunday August 05 2018, @04:27AM
You DO understand that several politicians' puppies died when you wrote that... that... heresy.
/sarcasm for the literal minded
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.