Persuasive Essay On Virtual School

Imagine waking up in the morning, looking out the window, and seeing a few feet of fresh, untouched snow outside. The roads are covered because the snowplows have not gone through yet, and people are just starting their day. Well, contrary to a typical snow day, students still have to get up to do schoolwork because school was not canceled, it was transformed in a virtual way. The idea of virtual classrooms taking place when there is too much snow on the ground first became a test trial in Bergen County of New Jersey in 2014. In this case, since it was a trial, Pascack Valley Regional High School planned to try this experiment on a wintery “snow day” in February of the school year, so beforehand, the students were told what they had to do and attending school …show more content…
What does this mean for school in the future? Well, the idea is that students will have to attend school from home by attending online classrooms if there are too many snow days in that particular school year. Some schools all over the country have already adapted to the virtual classroom system. Colleges are allowing Postsecondary students to attend their classes online rather than driving to the campus, and there are K-12 schools that are ran completely online. Despite the successes of virtual classrooms, though, they are not helping students any more than a normal classroom setting would. In fact, virtual classrooms are causing more harm to students than they are good because students who attend class online can be easily distracted and lose track of their responsibilities, the teacher has no control over the classroom so the learning environment declines, and, like any time dealing with technology, there will always be technical