Are kids not doing the home learning?

[WhoWants2Know]

I may be a little naive, but my kids schools have been ok with setting work and/or Skype lessons to keep things going. We've moaned about some of the work but mostly plodded along with it.

My oldest completed an end of year science assessment last week and the feedback after marking mentioned that 67 pupils had completed it and 141 had not.

My youngest attended a primary transition day and found that most of the kids in her bubble hadn't been bothering with the work.

I knew that some kids may not have access to the right technology or support to finish the work, but I was shocked at how many. Is this happening everywhere?

I will point out though, that more than a few kids "can't" get motivated at school either. Fortunately for you, the teachers have to persist in getting them to do the work regardless.

meetings etc have happened and mine have done all the work alongside me doing my job. So I get really annoyed at those who say they have to work so can't do it

My friend owns an on line furniture shop. She has to be in her barn fulfilling orders till 6pm every night.

@LilyPotter

I will point out though, that more than a few kids "can't" get motivated at school either. Fortunately for you, the teachers have to persist in getting them to do the work regardless.

Well it’s what they get paid for...

I have two friends who are having to work from home and told the school they will be doing zero homeschooling.

Did they issue it as some sort of, "so there!?" I mean, who's the one who's going to suffer long-term if the child falls behind? Sorry to be blunt, but it's not their current teacher, is it?

My kids have been very sporadic in what they have done and little has been handed in. They are 10 and 13. The issue is that I can't "homeschool" as I have my own bloody education related job which has exploded in demand, plus their year 11 and year 13 age siblings whose exams were cancelled and who are literally lying in bed all day with nothing to do are not setting a great example. DH locks himself in the office doing his work, only emerging to prepare himself some lunch each day, and I am trying to juggle every other fucking thing. Of course.

Did they issue it as some sort of, "so there!?" I mean, who's the one who's going to suffer long-term if the child falls behind? Sorry to be blunt, but it's not their current teacher, is it?

It’s way more important that their mortgage gets paid.

most of the parents I know have been working full time alongside trying to home educate (primary is a bit harder to just let them get on with it) so there hasn’t been a huge amount of home learning going on.

THIS!
It's been so stressful seeing the pics on the class whatsapp of kids working in replica classrooms, writing full stories ( they're 5!!!) and generally being amazing when i'm lucky if I get DS to do 10 mins a day.

Am in Scotland so now on school holidays. But before that it was certainly challenging.

A lack of it equipment was a major issue for us as well as a lack of work from school for my youngest.

When we were furloughed it was much easier to keep on top of school work, but will be honest once back at work
(Neither of us can work from home) school work fell down the priority list. My eldest (secondary school) did what was set, but my youngest couldn't and quite honestly the quality of work supplied wasn't great and he lacked confidence and motivation and after a full day at work it just wasn't the priority when we got home.

Well it’s what they get paid for...
Yes, and I refer you to my subsequent point. It's actually no skin off my nose now if your child has done zero work since mid-March. At Primary level, I will never teach them again, and their future school performance and attainment is beyond my ability to help.

Lily Potter that is their job though, in school, isn't it. It's not like they are motivating my year 8 boy whilst being an accountant simultaneously.

Some schools haven't set any work, some have sent out packs with varying return rates, some have taught full timetables online. A lottery basically. Here less than 50% of students have a home computer/laptop, a particular problem

Some schools haven't set any work, some have sent out packs with varying return rates, some have taught full timetables online. A lottery basically. Here less than 50% of students have a home computer/laptop, a particular problem

We were on holiday last week and this week the school hasn’t really set anything so we’ve pretty much broken for summer now. To be honest we have slogged abd slogged to get everything done. He has a massive portfolio of work to show come September so I’m not going to feel bad we’ve done very little over the last ten days.

My plan over the summer is to keep ticking with reading and maths and hand writing.

And they've been continuing to do it in school. My point is that it's not always easier for teachers to do so with children who really can't exert themselves. Some parents will have now experienced a little of what we're up against.
It's not like they are motivating my year 8 boy whilst being an accountant simultaneously. No, but they're simultaneously also trying to motivate 29 other kids, some of whom might well be throwing chairs around the room or struggling to understand the lesson if English is not their first language.

Different areas

I’m in very affluent south east London commuter belt

Everyone as far as I know been committed to home schooling.

@LilyPotter

Well it’s what they get paid for... Yes, and I refer you to my subsequent point. It's actually no skin off my nose now if your child has done zero work since mid-March. At Primary level, I will never teach them again, and their future school performance and attainment is beyond my ability to help.

Where have I said My kids haven’t done any work

I’m in very affluent south east London commuter belt

Everyone as far as I know been committed to home schooling

Have both parents been working full time while trying to homeschool?
Do you think less affluent areas aren't as committed?

Everyone as far as I know been committed to home schooling.
That's been my experience too.

My 2 daughters have been working every day. One is year 8 and until recently it was all set by email but now she is finally having some ms team sessions.
My year 4 daughter has had less and less work set by class dojo each week but we have supplemented this with several books which have her level of maths and English. All her work has been marked by us. Even when we have sent it through to the teacher we have not received any feedback. There really has not been a lot of contact from her school at all. This week she has been set "fun" stuff and not real work so although we are letting her do this, we are continuing our maths and English and will keep this going over the holidays as I want her going back at the right level in September.

Where have I said My kids haven’t done any work
I was making a general point.

@LilyPotter

And they've been continuing to do it in school. My point is that it's not always easier for teachers to do so with children who really can't exert themselves. Some parents will have now experienced a little of what we're up against. It's not like they are motivating my year 8 boy whilst being an accountant simultaneously. No, but they're simultaneously also trying to motivate 29 other kids, some of whom might well be throwing chairs around the room or struggling to understand the lesson if English is not their first language.

A school setting with strict rules and boundaries is totally different that sitting in your mums kitchen.

Weird that you think it is.

My friends with primary aged children have said their DC’s haven’t done any schooling since the lockdown. Both parents are working from home full time with very long hours and their DC’s aren’t interested in doing worksheets in their own every day.

My DC’s school is 1.5 form entry, so about 45 in a year group. The y4 were set a times table “test” on TT Rockstars to be done at any time during a two day period and the next newsletter said 36 had done it, which seemed quite high to me, and suggests the majority have been engaging well. I’ve done all the core stuff that’s been sent home but have been a bit more laissez-faire with the art/craft/science stuff, preferring to do our own stuff mostly. Still lots of photos on the school website that people have sent in of their DC doing/making things set by school.

I have done some. I work outside the home 2 or 3 school days a week (also work most weekends), so, while this meant my primary-school aged DC were eligible to go to school on the days that I worked, they didn't do any of the work set for home learning there. I worked out what to prioritise from the work set and tried to get them to do that, not always successfully. My year 4 DC has been very reluctant. I also never got to grips with the online learning platform on which we were supposed to do the work and, apparently, never managed to upload any of it so the teacher could see it. I am crap at technology and they came home on the last day of normal school in March with a website address and log in details for this site they had never used before and no instructions. We did some work every school day that I was at home except DC1's birthday and the day after when it was really hot and they played in the paddling pool instead and DC2 described it as 'the best day ever'. I don't know what their friends have been doing. DC1 tells me that no one else does as much as we do, but I don't know if that is true. I think people have just had to do the best they could in very difficult circumstances and I can't judge them or the decisions they made for their family.

@LilyPotter

Where have I said My kids haven’t done any work I was making a general point.

Maybe stop generalising then. You know nothing about what’s going on in other people’s homes.

You also don’t speak for all teachers