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Prolonged internet outage forces Henry County Schools to return to basics

Posted on December 14, 2023 by Dissent

Leon Stafford reports:

Under normal circumstances, Henry County teacher Samantha Hawthrone’s third graders would pull out their Chromebooks when building pie charts and histograms.

But last week, Hawthrone’s Austin Road Elementary School class was constructing bar graphs the old-fashioned way — on paper printed out for each student.

Instead of building the charts using a computer program, the students were pitching colorful dice onto their desks and recording how many sixes, fives and twos they rolled on a paper graph of purple, green and orange.

[…]

A month after reporting that it would restrict internet access because of “suspicious activity” on its internal network, the south metro Atlanta school system — the eighth largest in the state at around 43,000 students — is still largely operating without the web.

Read more at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Am I the only one who doesn’t have a problem with kids learning bar graphs the old-fashioned way?

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