Many ECOT students miss 30 days or more

It’s 11:15 a.m. on a Wednesday, and the phone rings about a dozen times before a groggy 17-year-old Anthony Battista picks up. After a long, quiet pause, he says: “I was kind of asleep,” and suggests calling back after 5 p.m. Battista, who lives on the Far East Side, is enrolled in the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, Ohio’s largest online charter school. But it’s almost noon and he isn’t yet awake, let alone logged into his lessons.