SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Students and families with the Scranton School District Cyber Academy gathered at Nay Aug Park on Wednesday for the program\u2019s annual end-of-year picnic.<\/p>\n
Held at the Schimelfenig Pavilion, the event brought together cyber students, teachers, and parents for an afternoon of games, raffles, face painting, and other activities aimed at building connections outside the virtual classroom. <\/p>\n
Program Supervisor Robert Butka said 318 people signed up for this year\u2019s picnic, about 40 more than last year, showing continued growth and engagement within the academy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that they get to come in and see their teachers not through a screen, it\u2019s cute when you see the elementary kids come up and see their teachers,\u201d Butka said. \u201cThey come up and give them hugs because you can\u2019t give them a hug through a camera screen.\u201d<\/p>\n
For eighth grader Joshua Wrobel, cyber school has provided a safer and more comfortable learning environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI chose cyber because it\u2019s a lot safer because of bullying,\u201d Wrobel said. \u201cIf bullying ever happened to a child and they wanted to protect themselves, cyber is a good spot for them because they could stay at home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Parents at the picnic also shared how the program has positively impacted their children academically.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s direct phone calls, emails, extra help, everything that you could possibly ask for,\u201d said parent Meagen Clancy. \u201cMy daughter went from not passing any classes to getting almost hundreds in every class and wanting to do school and wanting to do extra things and events where I couldn\u2019t get her to do so before.\u201d<\/p>\n
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According to district officials, approximately 975 students are currently enrolled in the Cyber Academy, with more live classes expected to be added in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Students and families with the Scranton School District Cyber Academy gathered at Nay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-205842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}