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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Data in today's BOE hints at why they shifted away from virtual summer school: A lot of kids flunked.

37% of virtual summer school students got a D or "No Grade Due to Failure"
31% of in-person summer school students got a D or "No Grade Due to Failure"

In absolute numbers, that 5,787 virtual summer school students who got a D or "No Grade Due to Failure" versus 362 in-person summer school students who got a D or "No Grade Due to Failure."[/quote]

I mean, you could look at the numbers a different way. Students signed up for over 15,000 summer courses virtually and just over 1,100 courses in person. So virtual was much much more preferable for families for a variety of reasons. Color me skeptical that the students who’ve already failed a course are going to have an easy time being convinced to attend full school day long courses in person with limited central stop transportation at a high school that probably isn’t their home school. [/quote]

DP. In general, virtual school is less effective than in-person school. And virtual summer school requires kids to do a lot more self-study. I can understand why they would have non-health/tech be in person — particularly because that tends to be kids who did badly in the course already. I just hope they choose schools that are in the center of each region and offer transportation. (I know the latter is unlikely.)
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But virtual isn’t ineffective for all students, particularly high school age students and particularly motivated students taking courses for original credit. What IS ineffective is condensing a semester into two weeks, which is even shorter than past years. [/quote]

I agree that they should extend it over longer periods, but they went in the opposite direction - going from almost 3 weeks to 2.[/quote]

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