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Student: Online classes ‘not very effective’

Kaitlyn Howell, a high school student from Caldwell, testifies at the school funding hearing that she's taken three online classes, and they were "very ineffective." (Betsy Russell)

Kaitlin Howell, a high school student from Caldwell, said she took three online classes and found them “something completely different from normal teaching.” She said “Learning is all self-taught and not very effective. One of the worst things that could be done to the school system is to implement more of these classes. Students would not learn the necessary material and education would be very ineffective.”

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Eye On Boise." Read all stories from this blog