[ExI] online schooling

[William Flynn Wallace]

How is the town growing if there is no available land?  Only way to go is
up?  bill w

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 9:42 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Because our local school district has only one high school and no land
> anywhere nearby suitable to build a second one, that one high school
> suffered terrible overcrowding.  So we passed a bond measure to build a
> second high school on the small piece of land where the district offices
> are now located, but buildings take a while to build.  The town is still
> growing, so the superintendent ordered the district to create remote
> learning plans which would allow students to apply to study from home, then
> come to campus only for events and testing and such, typically once a week.
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> The plan was ready, hadn’t rolled out, covid-19 general quarantine, the
> plan cranked up and ran, OK cool.
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> I am forming a committee to evaluate the general success of the effort,
> and what we can do to improve it.
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> If anyone has any ideas, inputs, observations, attitudes, experiences to
> share, please do.
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> I will offer one.  The math assignments are turned in now by the students
> scanning to taking photos of the completed assignment and posting them to a
> shared album (their own) which the teacher then has access.  This is COOL!
> Now we have the assignments forevermore in a digital form, from which good
> clean paper copies can be generated in the future.  Starting now, all
> written assignments can be digitally stored, which makes them accessible
> for recycling in later classes.  Plenty of essays and history assignments
> can be resurrected later, punched up with a little more sophistication, all
> in keeping with the admirable conservation principles of recycle,
> repurpose, reuse.
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> spike
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