Children to be offered lessons round the clock
A
truancy-hit school will lengthen its hour and add online teaching to
entice bored pupils.
Children
attending a school criticized for its poor truancy record are being
offered 24-hour teaching. As part of the two-year pilot project, they
are provided with online teaching throughout the night, and
classrooms are kept open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
When a
spokesman for the school was asked about the project, she provided a
written statement explaining that it was an attempt to meet the needs
of children normally forced to fit in with education conventions. The
statement pointed out that children must want to come into school,
and most play truant because they are not engaged by the lessons. It
was believed that those who don’t respond to the classroom might be
stimulated by online learning and e-mentoring, and as a result the
rates of truancy would be significantly reduced during the life of
the project.
The
initiative has been generally welcomed as an example of creative
thinking ‘outside the box’, and deserves to be given a fair
chance, although its findings will be closely monitored by
educational authorities in the months to come.
What
do you think of the project? Do you think it would be welcomed in
Russian schools?
