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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Online classes take sting out of summer school - ADAM GORLICK, Associated Press
When Scott Landry flunked a math class in his Townsend, Mass., high school this year, he was told he wouldn't make it into the 10th grade unless he went to summer school. So how was the 14-year-old starting his third week of a summer algebra class? "I'm going skateboarding and hanging out with my friends," he said. Of course, he wouldn't get around to those tasks until he rolled out of bed around 11 a.m. Algebra would wait until about 8 p.m., when he was done playing and ready to log on to his computer. With a growing number of schools letting students like Scott take classes and make up credits online, summer school's punitive reputation is slipping. Many teens are finding less of a need to spend their summers cooped up in a classroom missing out on camp, vacations and jobs.
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