Comments on: Tech-savvy principals give muted response to seat-time change

By: Mrs. T.

Mrs. T. — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:09:00 +0000

From my own personal experience taking a few online college courses, I can say that online courses are not even CLOSE to being the same learning experience as a real class, and I was a motivated, capable adult with a desire to learn the material. I learned virtually nothing in those classes. Even if these online classes are on the level, which I can assure you, most of them are not, it still pales in comparison to the personal and interactive learning experience in the classroom. Besides, aren’t our kids poorly socialized enough? Don’t they spend enough time in front of a screen as it is?

By: Online Education Is A Farce

Online Education Is A Farce — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:19:00 +0000

We had a credit recovery program at my school as well. At first kids were going to be required to do two sets of problems, 100 questions in each set and show proof they did it themselves by taking a quiz in front of the person in charge. But, it was too much for the kids to do. Many of them, all weak students had multiple assignments in addition to their other classwork. The 200 questions was reduced to 75 and no proof was necessary. Kids who had gotten 50′s the term before and knew nothing were now being awarded credit. I was told by many that friends did the assignments for them. It ISS assistant principal had tutors available to do assignments with her students and she made no secret out of letting them do them on the smart board during class time. One girl even told me she was told to sign in to her gym class and then go do credit recovery with a tutor. It is a sham. I could go on, but you get my point.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:49:00 +0000

Any teacher willing to talk or write something about the credit recovery system at your school, please contact me off line at leonie@att.net
thanks!

By: 15 Year Vet

15 Year Vet — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:34:00 +0000

The truth about how this works out in schools is that teachers are pressured to pass kids who have almost never been in class while administrators award credit for incomplete online learning. Keep watering down the expectations on students out of the left side of your mouth and talking about college readiness out of the right. Let’s see where we stand in ten years.

By: Rorysparrowed

Rorysparrowed — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:25:00 +0000

We have the online courses at my school where the kids get crdits for whatever classes they “take online.” Only problem is that either other students log into other students accounts and do it for them or they work in groups and just push right through the work, or tests online. It’s actually so funny that students can’t even believe they’re allowed to do this. Several students I have said to me that they were shocked that they can get all these credits for never even being in a classroom and having others take the online info and shoot through the multipe choice exams online. What a freakin joke! This system is finished!!!!!

By: I noticed that...

I noticed that... — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:17:00 +0000

Finland is most likely saying that America does not understand education and that online learning will be the cause of our nation’s setback.

By: Pogue

Pogue — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:22:00 +0000

Short online courses to graduate high school, short online courses to help in remedial college classes, short online courses to help college graduation…

Yep, we’re gonna’ climb that global competition ladder and pass all those countries ahead of us in the education field.

Finland must be shaking its head.