2 Netting Benefits of Ed. It's almost noon, and I can see the attention of the students in front of me has shifted from calculating the molar mass of methane to planning the rest of their day. Thoughts of lunch, movie theaters, shopping malls and perhaps the beach compete with me during the final minutes of class. Who can blame them. They have spent the past six weeks neck-high in Bunsen burners, beakers and test tubes.
Today is the last day of summer school.
I tell them it's the address for the College Choice Website they can use to learn more about college. I explain that the web site offers information that will help them find a college or university they would like to attend following high school. Once you access the web site, you can learn more about what you could be doing to prepare for the highly competitive process of college admissions. I continue to extol the virtues of the web site. I explain to the students that just about every college and university has its own web site from which students can obtain voluminous amounts of information to help them in their selection process.