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Mark Deschaine

Aug 31, 2026

2:42
A general question for you, and I'm not sure, again, if this is going to be the spine of the entire conversation or if there's some kind of long elevator answer that you have to this, but what does preparation designed specifically for online environments actually look like versus what most programs are doing?
3:03
Well, when we start using terms like most and all and have to, I kind of bristle.
3:11
because there is so much diversity in learning and teaching opportunities, especially in the online learning environment.
3:21
the nomenclature we use, how we define things, how we measure things.
3:26
Things that are important in one area may not be important in another because you might have extra funding or finances.
3:33
Like here in Mississippi, we have the Delta, and that's traditionally very impoverished with very few resources, which is different than down near the Capitol in Jackson, where they have a lot more But ultimately, I think when you start looking at traditional educational programs, and when I mean traditional, I'm talking about traditional public schools.
3:58
And we have to also make that distinction between public schools, traditional with the lockstep curriculum, public schools, charter schools, which have a little bit more flexibility, parochial schools, online schools, home schools, the like.

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31:17
But I just do wonder there's so many in a, when there's so much digital access and that becomes another component in it, where does that belong in that?

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