Virtually frustrating

I would like to express my thoughts about all the children going to school virtually during this past year. My child goes to the Pulaski County Special School District, and he uses a platform called Schoology and is taking AP classes this year; being virtual, he has failed every semester. His teachers aren’t getting his homework, which they put more emphasis on. Now he is in a program so he could pass the first semester that he failed, but if he fails a second semester, he will have to go to summer school. Just to do the homework he has to jump through hoops and go to third-party websites which, if I was his age, I would have a hard time negotiating just to turn my homework in.

I have heard many parents complain about this program, and a lot of their children are failing that have never failed before. On top of that, now they have a recovery program called Edgenuity that would allow your student to pass without having to go to summer school, but that program has a lot of flaws too. The video instructions are too long, and there’s too many quizzes to take, plus you still have to do your homework at night from your regular daytime class.

I have called the school and talked to people at the district office, but to no avail. I am just wondering how many other parents out there are fed up with this Schoology program. Now my plans for a summer vacation, which we weren’t able to take last year, are ruined because of summer school.

This has been a hard enough year for everybody, especially the children. I can only hope next year will be better for the students.

DAVID MAHER Sherwood