.......I live in an area where the only option is the public high school. They do as good of a job with the restrictions and perspectives laid upon them that they can.
They also have huge school bonds passed to pay for their IT program, and they were one of the very first to convert completely to computers at the grade school and high school level. Their entire program is done with iPads that they have bought and given to every child.
But there is no teaching going on online because they cannot guarantee that everyone has internet access at home. Thus, rather than give the “rich kids” the advantage, they give no one the advantage.
The thinking is “we must hold the entire group up to the pace of the slowest member”. We see this in their teaching style as well.
I do not want any child to be at a disadvantage, the situation is terrible because of this epidemic but what sense does this make? Offers of making WiFi available have been shunned because there will still be parents who won’t help their kids out. Thus, everyone must suffer and fall behind.
Morons.
Meanwhile, the local catholic grade school which does not have the money to put up the same computer program that the public school does has its teachers converted and teaching class everyday. A couple who we are friends with has one who teaches at the public school and one at the catholic school. The public school teacher says he can only sit home while he collects his same paycheckthe catholic school teacher is having to work for it.
The catholic school handles a tougher demographic than the public school as well.
Guess which school performs consistently better at every level every year?