Imagine sitting in your room, on YouTube, watching a video. Now imagine this video being of your teacher, teaching you the daily lessons, and then going to school only to do your homework. Would it still be called homework or is it schoolwork? This is just one of the questions that Barat students have been asking when it comes to the flipped classroom.

In late February, the administration approached teachers with the idea of videotaping their lessons and then sending them to students. The plan is that the students would take the video, watch it at home, and then come to school the next day to work on their homework during class.

The flipped classroom has brought about a big controversy. Some teachers have begun using the flipped classroom, while other teachers have refused to even try it.

Junior U.S. History teacher, Mr. Smith says, “The flipped classroom is a good idea depending upon what subject. In the hard sciences they are great because you can go home and see and hear how teachers have worked out problems. In social sciences and humanities it is a little bit different because they are discussion based.”

Students have seemed to take a different look at it. “I like it because if you do not understand something on the homework, then I can just ask him instead of waiting,” says Junior Tori Murray. Freshman Mackenzie Flanagan thinks “it works well in math, but I know that I would not do well with it in classes like English and Theology.”

For now, the idea has not taken off as much as the administration has planned. However, many people could see it working well for the Math and Science courses in the future.