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School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead

posted by chromas on Saturday August 04 2018, @05:22PM   
from the it-snow-fair! dept.

Fnord666 writes:

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

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Original Submission

• The Grass is Always Redder on the Other Side The Grass is Always Redder on the Other Side (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @09:17PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @09:17PM (#717314)

  Why did the man cross the road?

  His screams of agony did nothing. How had this happened? Little Jimmy had just been walking to school when a certain figure came from across the road. Now, that figure was brutally raping and beating the boy, all the while chortling at his suffering. Yes, the word "mercy" was nowhere to be found in this monster's vocabulary.

  Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! One after another, Jimmy's bones snapped. They snapped even when he screamed. They snapped even when he bled. And they continued to break even when he himself was broken. The large figure sighed in satisfaction and returned to the other side of the road, to wait, to watch, and to smile.

  I ask again: Why did the man - that obese, hideous, monstrous, and violent man - cross the road...?

  Parent

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• Re:The Grass is Always Redder on the Other Side (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @08:53AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @08:53AM (#717461)

  You're just not getting it, are you. The original guy had this down to an artform. You are a copycat. Not a very good one either. This sucked. Get up your game if you're going to try this.

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• Re:The Grass is Always Redder on the Other Side (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:24PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:24PM (#717618)

  He was stapled to the fucking chicken.

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