In The Lucy Tobias Columnist Imagine an elementary school student who asks for more homework. Or a high school student working out a chemistry equation, with the teacher sitting at the same table, uninterrupted by other students. Housed on the second floor of a former private school next to the show grounds, HITS classrooms are a school away from school.
Students keep up with their work.
Teachers send in assignments. Tests are administered and faxed back to their school. Some work is done by e-mail. Chris Mielenz, age 9, from Memphis, Tenn., is in the third grade. He doesn't ride horses but his parents do.