Kids show up for online classes at high school

Every weekday morning, the 65 high school students enrolled in a new San Francisco charter school show up in a conference room of a Union Square hotel, flip on their computers and start class.

A handful of teachers are present, but they don’t tell the teens what to do. And for the most part, the teachers don’t teach – at least in the old-fashioned way.

In this free alternative public school, students are entrusted to learn on their own, each at his or her own pace, and almost entirely online.

Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writer

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