In the month of June, as most students are beginning to think about summer camp, or a temporary job, some students are beginning a new semester of school. Whether they are retaking a failed class or trying to get ahead in their studies, summer school is not how most adolescents would like to spend their summer.
I have an unusually high interest in the notion of summer school this year because, for the first time, I will be teaching a class during these hot months.
Summer courses are much like fall or winter courses. The classrooms are the same, but tend to have fewer students in them, and are filled with much hotter air. Most institutions I know of, mine included, have no air conditioning. I plan on wearing sandals to work.
I suppose the main difference between regular semester courses and summer ones is that students sitting in class during the summer do not want to be there. Let me rephrase that ... However much a student wants to be in a classroom under normal circumstances, they want to be there in the summer less.
