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I doubt very much that these online days will count towards the minimum allocation of school attendance days. That means lots of children might need to repeat a

I doubt very much that these online days will count towards the minimum allocation of school attendance days. That means lots of children might need to repeat a year due to the gaps. Online courses are no substitute for real schooling as they are all lousy. Interaction is woeful and teenage children certainly don't have self-direction as a majority.

closeparen 7y ago
As a teenager I always found it suspicious that when I would miss a 7-hour school day, it would take 3 hours at most to do the make up work. If we did that all the time, we could learn twice as much!
- imtringued 7y ago
  That's just a pragmatic decision. If you have to make up the whole 7 hour school day then you could be in a situation where you are so far behind that you could never catch up. There is this game called Warframe that has a daily login bonus. There is no mechanism to partially skip days if you missed them. New rewards are always added as a new milestone. The end result is that there are rewards that are only available after getting the login bonus for 1000 days. If you stop playing for a year and then come back you will never catch up to the latest rewards.
  - closeparen 7y ago
    I can find 2.25 clearly accountable hours without losing any academic content: - Lunch and recess (45-60 minutes). - Passing periods (27-28 minutes). - Lifestyle activities: art, health, gym, music, etc. (45 minutes). Now some fluffier ones: - Suppose, like a typical Coursera user, I can understand the content at 1.2x classroom speed. There's 60 minutes. - The door-to-door transition period is four minutes. But settling in, packing up, pleasantries, and administrivia probably put the lecture-content-to-lecture-content time at closer to 10 minutes. So there's another 42 minutes. There. I just found 4 hours with losing a drop of college-relevant material.
Someone1234 7y ago
You might "doubt" it but most States now offer exclusively online programs for middle school and above, including public school districts. This is particularly popular with quasi-home school kids. Ours does in a different state, and they count as regular school for attendance/funding (state and federal).
- gedy 7y ago
  Seeing that "normal" schools are very strict about attendance even with the online/charter options in same district, I'm assuming their funding model still needs them to count children on campus.
  - Someone1234 7y ago
    When they attend online school, they're attending. There's no distinction.

closeparen 7y ago

As a teenager I always found it suspicious that when I would miss a 7-hour school day, it would take 3 hours at most to do the make up work. If we did that all the time, we could learn twice as much!

imtringued 7y ago
That's just a pragmatic decision. If you have to make up the whole 7 hour school day then you could be in a situation where you are so far behind that you could never catch up. There is this game called Warframe that has a daily login bonus. There is no mechanism to partially skip days if you missed them. New rewards are always added as a new milestone. The end result is that there are rewards that are only available after getting the login bonus for 1000 days. If you stop playing for a year and then come back you will never catch up to the latest rewards.
- closeparen 7y ago
  I can find 2.25 clearly accountable hours without losing any academic content: - Lunch and recess (45-60 minutes). - Passing periods (27-28 minutes). - Lifestyle activities: art, health, gym, music, etc. (45 minutes). Now some fluffier ones: - Suppose, like a typical Coursera user, I can understand the content at 1.2x classroom speed. There's 60 minutes. - The door-to-door transition period is four minutes. But settling in, packing up, pleasantries, and administrivia probably put the lecture-content-to-lecture-content time at closer to 10 minutes. So there's another 42 minutes. There. I just found 4 hours with losing a drop of college-relevant material.

Someone1234 7y ago

You might "doubt" it but most States now offer exclusively online programs for middle school and above, including public school districts. This is particularly popular with quasi-home school kids. Ours does in a different state, and they count as regular school for attendance/funding (state and federal).

gedy 7y ago
Seeing that "normal" schools are very strict about attendance even with the online/charter options in same district, I'm assuming their funding model still needs them to count children on campus.
- Someone1234 7y ago
  When they attend online school, they're attending. There's no distinction.