Stride is an online learning experience to make it more convenient for teachers and students to work at their own pace and help students connect and succeed at online learning. Unfortunately though there has been a lot of controversy on whether or not stride is actually useful, Most people are against stride and believe that students learn better in person while others don’t.

Sophomore, Kacy kitchen, has a stride class for chemistry.

¨I don’t like stride classes and I feel like students aren’t able to learn over a screen and actually comprehend it.”

Do you agree with what she said? So do many other people. Many students have said that the online classes are less engaging than in person. They believe that the virtual classes limits the one-on-one time that students are able to get with teachers. Because of this students tend to fail stride classes or even not log in to their stride class, affecting their grades. Online learning can be boring and stressful students can easily get distracted on stride calls.

Many students struggle to learn,focus in online classes and tend to learn better in person getting that one on one help from teachers.

Ms. LaTunya Lockett, Stride Monitor at EHS said that although some students struggle to learn in a virtual setting, “…as students, we learn differently: visual, auditory, reading/writing learning, and kinesthetic. Not all learning styles connect with Online learning, but if students try and give it a chance, it could be a good learning style that they would never know that they could achieve. Students need to give it a chance and not make a solid decision without trying.”

Students often struggle with focusing in Stride classes, choosing to be on their phones over listening to the instructors. According to Mrs. Lockett, the biggest problem in the Stride classrooms are, “Cell Phones, cell phones, cell phones! Students are not paying attention!”

Although Ms. Lockett understands how students may struggle in Stride classes, she believes that they have potential. ¨It’s a great program if students will just give it a chance. Online learning gives the students an opportunity to do assignments in class and at their own leisure, but all come with a somewhat lengthy deadline. Instructions are clear and direct, easy to comprehend. The assignments are interesting and the book novel choices are fantastic!”

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