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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Health ed has 3-5 assignments a day, some big ones.  Doing it over two weeks is crazy, same with math, english and other subjects.[/quote]

Since my kid is hoping to take health this summer ... do you mean that for every day that health meets, there are 3-5 assignments, so 6-10 over the course of the week for virtual? I'm presuming that if you take the course in person, much of that is done in class given that you are getting many more hours in front of a teacher, so the amount of homework would be substantially less.[/quote]

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