North Judson-San Pierre School Officials Conduct e-Learning Survey

Posted on June 22, 2019
Author Jacque Ryan, WKVI

North Judson-San Pierre Schools just completed their first year with e-Learning and in order to gauge the community’s response, school officials asked teachers, students and parents to provide some feedback about how it went.

Superintendent Dr. Annette Zupin said aside from echoing the same concern that school officials had that e-learning does not replace physical instruction time with a teacher in the classroom, there was a positive response.

Dr. Zupin shared, “Almost everybody felt that the assignments were easily able to access, that there was teacher assistance when their child or they needed it and that the assignments were appropriated, as far as the difficulty level.

Dr. Zupin stated that while it was generally well received, it wasn’t all positive feedback that came out of the survey.

She said people did not care for Saturday e-Learning. She noted that concern will be taken under consideration and she hopes they won’t have to utilize those days in the coming years.

Board member Derrick Stalbaum indicated that while they may not be well liked whatever steps they can take to avoid adding extra days on at the end of the year is beneficial.

Additionally, there were some individuals who felt that the make-up time that was allotted to students was a bit too long.

She explained, “There was some concern from parents and teachers that with three days to make up the work some of the, especially high school, kids they just procrastinated. I get that but I also know that I think we have to offer some time for those students who don’t have the access or might not have had the chance.”

Dr. Zupin mentioned that the survey also revealed that about 97 percent of those who responded to the survey said that their students were able to utilize home wifi or their cellular device to complete their e-Learning assignments. 

She said while that may be a good amount of students, they still have to make accommodations to ensure that the kids without access to the internet at home are afforded the same opportunity as those who have it.