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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 All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday August 06 2018, @02:44PM
Kinda, yeah. The textbook provides a framework. Not just for the student, but for the teacher. A really good teacher's edition discusses the subjects at hand and has base layouts for lesson plans in them. A really great teacher and textbook will take the textbook material and re-present it in a method that the student understands more easily than simply reading it. (Though there are students who learn more easily by actually reading the text rather than having it spoken/written on the board).
Then again, I'm the guy who never resells his textbooks. And once every second or third year I come across a problem where I go get my textbook to refresh myself on the steps about how to solve them.
Then again again, I'm weird. (As are many of us here...)
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