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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @04:53AM
As a math professional, the answer is no. I've been tutoring math for years and will be teaching it in the near future. Math books are not written to be read by students. The wording is unclear, the examples are incomplete and often the math isn't even correct.
The sad thing is that on the whole they're even worse than they were 20 years ago as they've focused on including diverse pictures of people and chasing the latest fad.
The best style remains a series of completely worked out example problems with commentary about the decisions that were made in solving the problem and the context in which the problem occurred written in plain language. With math terms explained and used for precison rather than to appeal to individuals holding higher degrees.