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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 sjames on Monday August 06 2018, @12:14AM
And my post was due to long experience living in Georgia (one state to the south for the geographically challenged). We either get light snow that's gone in a day or we get about a weeks worth of ice accompanied by downed trees and associated power loss.
The former isn't enough disruption to the school year to fret over (since it happens less than once a year) and the latter, as I pointed out, will see many students UNABLE to log in from home (and a few more who will SAY they were unable).