If school's don't return on March 8th what will you do?

[cottonwoolbrain]

I am goign to be completely honest. I can't handle this anymore. I'm not sure what I'll do. I'm in tears every day now and the rest of the time just feel completely and utterly numb as if I'm doing everything on autopilot. Keep shoutinbg at the children - rate its going they'll get Stockholm Syndrome being coooped up with me as I am

DS (8) needs almost constant supervision to get him to do any work at all or even to sit in his chair. HIs school have great distance learning but I'm exhausted trying to get him to do it even with online classes. DD is 15. She's great at doing the work but is understandly stressed and lonely and worried about next years GCSEs and I feel like I'm getting the brunt of it.

I work part time and its the sort of job that requires high concentration levels. I can't just stop to answer questions about everything under the sun (including the flipping sun).

I'm breaking. Half term starts tomorrow. Hopefully a week of not home schooling will help and then I''ll be counting the days until March 8th but I'm so desperately worried they won't go back and I'm not sure what I'll do or how I'll cope.

DP helps as much as he can but most of its falling on me.

Sorry don't knwo what I'm saying except that i dont thknk I can hold out much longer and its messing up my children so badly.

The other thing is that if schools go back too soon, bubbles will burst, and we'll all be back at square one.

@freckles20

I'm not sure what to do. 14 to DS has gone from happy and sociable to depressed, anxious and self harming. I've cut down my work as much as I can, and I think I'll have to give it up completely if schools stay closed.

His mental health is in tatters. I don't want to put teachers at risk from Covid , but I am extremely worried about him. I no longer care about his education in terms of exams, I just want him to feel better.

This is heartbreaking to read and I doubt your ds is the only one feeling like this. I do worry about all the mental health problems that are being created from this pandemic. You are correct to prioritise his mental health over education. Exams can be retaken whereas it takes a lot longer to repair a persons mental health 💐

Sorry @cottonwoolbrain

that message wasn't directed at you.

@MarshaBradyo

Elli I’m glad all you get is a forum to type on rather than decision making.

I feel the same about you, to be honest.

Your attitude has always been reckless about the lives of others.

@PenguinIce But my student who has lost a family member isn't heartbreaking?

Some fucked up and skewed priorities, there.

Sansa how exactly? Can you tell me if I’ve broken rules?

No you can’t. And I’ve always advocated following them. So you are wrong. Go and have a go at rule breakers if that’s your idea of a good time.

@ElliFAntspoo

A lot of people do not understand that this is a long haul thing that is going on here. You may get them back 2 or 3 days a week, or maybe for a few weeks, but don't expect to not be in the same boat in October, and a replay trough next autumn and winter.

We can either look at what is actually happening around us, or we can watch our TVs and believe hear what we want to hear from the men behind the podiums, and hide under our duvets and pretend for another week that it'll all be over soon.

A staged lockdown release will be announced in 10 days, which will show a gradual phased opening up of society in four monthly stages between Easter and September. It will fail, and the failure will be blamed on the profligacy of the public to be reasonable in the summer, and be used as the reason why they need a firebreak lockdown in October, followed by another in November so they don't have a repeat of Christmas last year.

Then you'll have a repeat of last Christmas, and hard lockdowns next winter, and you'll be on here complaining and hammering away at your keyboards again saying I can't believe we wasted another year.

They told you at the beginning that this was the new normal. What part of that was not understandable? There will be rolling lockdowns and control measures for a long time to come. You can change your life and ditch the stress and plan ahead for the future, or you can hold onto your old life and fret about plans that no longer work and try to grasp at an old life that isn't coming back.

I really feel sorry for all the kids who's parents are piling stress onto them and demanding academic performance.

ALL OF THIS

All of the denial, shock, surprise, rage, depression and exhaustion all comes about from not wanting to face the bigger picture.

[quote SansaSnark]@PenguinIce But my student who has lost a family member isn't heartbreaking?

Some fucked up and skewed priorities, there.[/quote]
Hang on, I haven’t even read about your student. I was just offering sympathy to a women who’s son is obviously struggling!

I'm in Scotland. I don't think Sturgeon will let our kids back till after the Easter Holidays - so mid April.

I'm am just trying not to think about it and drinking gin.

God I want the people saying it’ll get easier with the weather to fuck off.
Nothing makes this easier.
NOTHING!

In answer to your question OP. What can we do? Honestly, we have fuck all options.

I guess the only option left to me is to stop doing the homeschool altogether because I’m sick to death of being the bad guy all the time. I’m sick to death of the arguments over shitty English assignments and I’m sick to death of forcing my DC to participate in any form of exercise.

So give up. That’s all we’ve got left.

@IloveFebruary

God I want the people saying it’ll get easier with the weather to fuck off. Nothing makes this easier. NOTHING!

In answer to your question OP. What can we do? Honestly, we have fuck all options.

I guess the only option left to me is to stop doing the homeschool altogether because I’m sick to death of being the bad guy all the time. I’m sick to death of the arguments over shitty English assignments and I’m sick to death of forcing my DC to participate in any form of exercise.

So give up. That’s all we’ve got left.

The children will really benefit from that stroppy attitude won’t they.

If parents can not get kids to engage what makes you think teachers can?

🙄

I’m on my own and on my knees now. I work from home and attempt to home school a 7 year old. We aren’t leaving the house due to the exercise from home rule. There’s nowhere suitable to exercise from home. No park or anything. Yet we’re a five minute drive from the coast. Which isn’t allowed.
I really hope the sanctimonious people on this thread, end up feeling the impact of this in the same way that I am. It’s all very well to call for lockdown with your nuclear family. Not everyone is as fortunate. I’m not scared of dying. What kind of a life is this?

Add to that we are working with windows open in near zero degree temps. Primary school with half of the school are in, support staff ‘supervising’ learning, all shivering despite wearing several
layers of clothes! I’m in a primary school and am wondering how much longer staff can cope let alone the children. Being in a freezing classroom with children, some of whom are in because their parents can’t cope with home learning is not a great feeling. We have staff calling children to hear them read because there is no learning at all happening at home. And we will pick these children back up again when they return. I’m not sure how many parents works want to have their children in freezing classrooms rather than warm at home. If this were normal times schools would be closed for being below the legal temperature.
Schools must not open too quickly or we will just be back where we were.

Cry, comfort eat, despair and keep going as best we can. At least there should be more day light and hopefully warmer temperatures.

@ElliFAntspoo
What a condescending post. Where have you got your information from exactly? This is your opinion, don't try and present it as fact.

@ElliFAntspoo

A lot of people do not understand that this is a long haul thing that is going on here. You may get them back 2 or 3 days a week, or maybe for a few weeks, but don't expect to not be in the same boat in October, and a replay trough next autumn and winter.

We can either look at what is actually happening around us, or we can watch our TVs and believe hear what we want to hear from the men behind the podiums, and hide under our duvets and pretend for another week that it'll all be over soon.

A staged lockdown release will be announced in 10 days, which will show a gradual phased opening up of society in four monthly stages between Easter and September. It will fail, and the failure will be blamed on the profligacy of the public to be reasonable in the summer, and be used as the reason why they need a firebreak lockdown in October, followed by another in November so they don't have a repeat of Christmas last year.

Then you'll have a repeat of last Christmas, and hard lockdowns next winter, and you'll be on here complaining and hammering away at your keyboards again saying I can't believe we wasted another year.

They told you at the beginning that this was the new normal. What part of that was not understandable? There will be rolling lockdowns and control measures for a long time to come. You can change your life and ditch the stress and plan ahead for the future, or you can hold onto your old life and fret about plans that no longer work and try to grasp at an old life that isn't coming back.

I really feel sorry for all the kids who's parents are piling stress onto them and demanding academic performance.

Just go away!!!!

Lower your expectations in respect of home schooling your DS. You do not have superpowers and of course you will be at the end of your tether. If I can't meet loved ones and friends any time soon, I will be cracking up too. This is a melting pot of mental health problems.

If parents can not get kids to engage what makes you think teachers can?

I thought that teachers were trained to engage children in education?

Hope they don't open non essential retail until the send mine back to school. Then just carry on as we are. Focussing on the maths and English and doing the fun stuff when she's with her Gran, and catching anything missed from the week over the weekend.

@ElliFAntspoo

A lot of people do not understand that this is a long haul thing that is going on here. You may get them back 2 or 3 days a week, or maybe for a few weeks, but don't expect to not be in the same boat in October, and a replay trough next autumn and winter.

We can either look at what is actually happening around us, or we can watch our TVs and believe hear what we want to hear from the men behind the podiums, and hide under our duvets and pretend for another week that it'll all be over soon.

A staged lockdown release will be announced in 10 days, which will show a gradual phased opening up of society in four monthly stages between Easter and September. It will fail, and the failure will be blamed on the profligacy of the public to be reasonable in the summer, and be used as the reason why they need a firebreak lockdown in October, followed by another in November so they don't have a repeat of Christmas last year.

Then you'll have a repeat of last Christmas, and hard lockdowns next winter, and you'll be on here complaining and hammering away at your keyboards again saying I can't believe we wasted another year.

They told you at the beginning that this was the new normal. What part of that was not understandable? There will be rolling lockdowns and control measures for a long time to come. You can change your life and ditch the stress and plan ahead for the future, or you can hold onto your old life and fret about plans that no longer work and try to grasp at an old life that isn't coming back.

I really feel sorry for all the kids who's parents are piling stress onto them and demanding academic performance.

You have no idea if this is going to happen so don't present it as fact.

I'd like to see staff vaccinated before the children fully return. If they won't do that by March, then so be it.

Thank you Elli "...this is a long haul thing that is going on here". Exactly. We can't magic it away, but it will slowly improve.

Why r u stressing? Your 15 year old should have independence now and everything is the same as would be in school as they spend all day on teams lessons.

As.your your 8 year old. Give him the ipad and put him on his online lessons and then after you finish work at the end of the day you do the work. During the day he plays on his pc?

I feel the same OP.

Cry
And be thankful that at least my 3 year old can go to nursery