Reader says , “The summer school “rules” were never clearly presented. “
The summer school “rules” were never clearly presented. I knew that they had summer school but the hours per day for remedial and new credit were not clear. A borderline D/F student had 24 hours to get registered if they failed the class at the final exam.
I researched summer school programs at other schools in New Jersey in an attempt to figure out how Ridgewood probably worked. There was a school that had summer school for less weeks and an hour more per day. This would be much more attractive to a family that had to make summer plans around a student in school.
They should have had the marketing club get the information out to the students. No one wants to go to summer school and it is targeted to students who did not do well the first time. Don’t make it like a punishment.
It would have been good to know what teachers would be in the classroom for summer school. My son had a terrible English teacher this year and there was no way we would send him to summer school with her. She should be editing book jackets in a cubicle somewhere away from children
