By Robert Stoneback The Danville News DANVILLE — School district
officials are researching what advantages district-sponsored
cyber classes could bring to students. “We’re looking into
that,” said Danville school board President Allan Schappert.
Superintendent Cheryl Latorre and school board member Joseph
Stemm also support looking into online classes as an option,
Schappert said. “There’s a whole host of reasons. Some kids just
don’t learn well in a traditional classroom, there are too many
distractions,” he said. Parents in other parts of the country
have used cyber schools as an option because they are worried
about bullies. It could also provide an alternative for expelled
or suspended students to continue their educations, or to
provide basic-level instruction that doesn’t require the time of
a teacher, he said. Lessons that largely require memorization,
such as multiplication tables, could be better suited for online
classes so that class time can be saved to review more complex
lessons and assignments,