Virtual school is the pits, in this parent’s perspective.
Yet one dad’s mantrap can be another’s paradise.
Local school officials better take heed.
Districts are announcing plans for next school year, and the tone is unmistakable: Leaders are as eager to abandon online learning as high school seniors are to turn the tassels on their graduation caps.
Effingham County Schools Superintendent Yancy Ford said this week, “We do not plan to have a virtual option.” Never mind that 1,305 students 10% of the population are learning from home over an internet connection this year.
Savannah-Chatham Superintendent Ann Levett told the School Board on Wednesday that the virtual option will be available by request only and on a limited basis. Meanwhile, 25,000 of the district’s 37,000 students are currently learning from home five days a week. The parents of the majority of those kids have said their children will return to school buildings in August, but a significant number p
We feel very hopeful, but we also want to make sure that you know all the support is what we re planning for. But if we need to do something different, we ll do that as well, Levett continued.
Levett said returning students will possibly be phased in as school begins. We want to make sure that we are not sending all 36[000] to 37,000 of them in at once, so we will be looking at a phasing process probably just as we ve done in previous years in the district, so that students and staff have an opportunity to get acclimated.
Discussion ensued among the board in answering parents questions about when will they know for sure that school will start in-person on Aug. 4.