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LANSING Sweltering classrooms, drowsy students, dull lectures. By and large, summer school is seen as a slog: a punitive measure meant to keep struggling students from falling behind while their peers enjoy summer in the sun.
But following a year when most students were cooped up at home, summer school is going to look different and Greater Lansing educators are expecting record enrollment.
To combat the social-emotional learning loss many students experienced this year, Lansing School District is pairing classroom learning with art, music, athletics, trips to the zoo and even horseback riding in its summer school program, or SOAR (Student Opportunities for Academic Re-engagement). Other offerings are designed to help students avoid repeating a grade or allow seniors to make up credits that kept them from graduating in the spring.
An eighth-grade history teacher is on leave after a 2012 assignment in which he asked students to write about the positive aspects of slavery surfaced.