Ohio Schools Negate Snow Days with Online Learning
Ohio Schools Negate Snow Days with Online Learning
Posted 10/26/2010 at 5:57am
| by Paul Lilly
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Ohio kids can't seem to catch a break this year. First it was hometown hero LeBron James breaking up with Cleveland in ceremonious fashion and skipping town to take his talents to South Beach, and now they're being told that they'll still have attend school during snow days. No, the superintendent isn't forcing kids to trek through blizzards to learn the Pythagorean theorem, but they are required to hop online.
The Ohio Department of Education is watching as the Mississinawa Valley Schools in Darke County experiment with online learning during days off because of snow and other inclement weather, The Washington Post reports. If the tests are successful, more schools could be added to the mix.
For school kids, it could be worse -- just ask our folks, who claim they used to walk three miles to school, through snowstorms, uphill, both ways.
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EdnaM
July 07, 2011 at 4:02pm
Ten years ago technology began to seep into the college academic setting.In the late 1990's, however, college academia took a giant step forward in elearning by introducing courses that could be taken entirely online. The environmental trends in elearning have changed dramatically from the infrequent use of the Internet and elearning to relying on the elearning for an entire course.I took my masters in communication this way.I got to say that I consider it to be a better option in the economic context of our days.
Wingzero_x
October 26, 2010 at 5:52pm
Let's see there's the airplane, the gas mask, the traffic signal, the dish washer, the method to refine gasoline, the pop can, the Richter scale, and many, many others. Oh, and Thomas Edison was born in Ohio as well.
However, I will give you this is made up by the state government of Ohio, and anything made by them is NEVER any good!
Sparx10
October 26, 2010 at 4:51pm
Pythagorean theorem is ftw :D
And Danthrax66's comment is funny :D
Danthrax66
October 26, 2010 at 2:41pm
So what happens if they lose power? Or if they don't have a computer? Or if they have trouble connecting because it is designed by Ohio and nothing in Ohio is any good...
PCLinuxguy
October 27, 2010 at 12:10am
That depends on cost of this versus cost of adding days on to make up for the days off like this. not to mention making sure the kids do what they're supposed to versus screwing off and such. Instead: give them school year round, skim about $20 Million off of the pro athletes' annual paychecks to put into the schools and teachers to raise the bar, ditch the no child left behind bullcrap, reinstate an ass paddling for misbehaving. this will put american schools back in the running.
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