[hdctambien]

You have to imagine a school full of children like a room full of hackers that will work harder to break your system than they will to follow it.

On this forum people say "all you need is a library card" to learn Computer Science, but you also need to read those library books.

How does your system deal with students that just refuse to do anything?

[jfaucett]

> How does your system deal with students that just refuse to do anything?

How is this dealt with in normal schools? From what I remember, students that didn't do anything just got passed on to the next year (maybe having to go to summer school which just meant showing up and you get passed on to the next grade).

Obviously, software can only help minimally here (by giving teachers better insights sooner into which students aren't doing their assignments, etc). I think overall, you really have to lower student/teacher ratios a lot. This helps significantly with misbehaving or problem kids in my experience and creates a more personal connection to the teacher.

If you have any ideas yourself on ways to solve this problem I'd really like to hear them.

[anonymous5133]

Only punishment mechanism I can think of is the parents have to make sure the kid is actually doing his students. The software could have some some alert system that sends an e-mail saying "junior didn't turn in homework 3/5 etc."