SUMMIT, Miss. (AP) - The McComb School District will hold a lottery this month to choose 250 students for a new public elementary school that won’t divide its students into age-based classes. Rather, says Superintendent Cederick Ellis Sr., teachers will “meet students where they are.”
The district’s website says that students will choose what they will learn, how they will learn, and how they will assess their own learning. They’ll be at school for 207 days rather than 180, and will attend for 9 ½ hours a day.
Ellis te;;s the Enterprise-Journal (https://bit.ly/1CEG7S9 ) that says the district received 298 applications for kindergarten through fourth grade.
The 48 children not chosen in Friday’s lottery will go onto a waiting list.
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