PROVIDENCE– Remember when summer school meant sitting in a stuffy classroom, watching a lone fly beat against the windowpane while a teacher droned on about the difference between “mean” and “average’?
Well, in a few school districts, summer offers something different, especially for middle school students who are at a crossroads in their educational careers.
For students from Providence schools, for example, it means hands-on experiences such as operating a mini-submarine, sailing on Narragansett Bay or growing trout.
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