“It’s one of those ideas that I think was simply inevitable,” Mullin told TODAY.com. “Our students are used to conducting many of their learning experiences on their laptop machines, whether school happens to be in session or not.”
Knowing a polar vortex was approaching and threatening the Midwest with more than a foot of snow, school officials conducted a test-run of the online program Monday. Cathedral conducted classroom lessons over the Internet when the storm hit Tuesday — when neighboring school districts called off classes altogether.
Mullin said the school has been planning and refining this plan for about four years, and that it’s been facilitated by the fact that all of the school’s 655 students and 45 teachers have a MacBook Air laptop at their disposal. (Fundraising projects and annual tuition, which is $8,680 this school year, offset the cost of the laptops.)
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