My son is Y8. His school have asked they he does 3-4 hours of school work a day. The provision has been extremely patchy, with feedback only provided in French and some English, plus maths marked automatically by the website he uses.
Every day he has sat and slogged over this work. He has struggled with motivation, some of the more tricky work, PSFs that are hard to follow, links that are broken and the sheer boredom of dry worksheet after worksheet and work that TBH I feel in many cases is of questionable benefit.
I am still asking him, sometimes nagging even to make sure that he does all school work. He is now quite resentful, and sometimes the work gets drawn out all day as I try to give him some level of autonomy as to how and when it gets done.
He gets little praise from school for doing the work- just an occasional non personal group email. I've tried to tackle this with school but to no avail.
I'm aware from what he tells me and contact that I have with other parents that many of his peers are just not doing the work. I was initially quite shocked, but I'm beginning to wonder if I'm in the minority and have taken the wrong approach.
A parent I really respect who is also a primary school teacher told me yesterday that i should let DS off the school work and encourage him to enjoy this time. This has made me doubt myself further.
I guess I am very worried about the effect of no schooling for so long, and I don't believe it will be remotely easy to catch up- so I reacted by insisting he did all work. But maybe I'm on a hiding to nothing!
May I ask what whether other parents of similarly aged DC feel if is important that they do all remote school work?
I want to add that I'm aware many schools are providing excellent remote learning, and that I have raised my concerns with DS's school but they have no plans to improve the current set up.
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Chaotic45 · 15/06/2020 15:41
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