Do you know what your year8 child is doing in school?

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Homeschooling or otherwise?
How involved are you?
Do you just glance at their books occasionally or do you help them?

Not particularly involved because that's how she wants it! We help when asked and listen when she wants to tell us about it.

Yes because we ask. Originally under the old head the school provided topics for each term but the new head stopped, could be due to COVID as it was less of a priority.

But we normally talk at dinner what DD is doing and what topics they do,. In some cases DD will tell by her own if it is something she really enjoys.

I have an idea because we talk about it, the only help I give is sometimes she wants me to read her answer to ensure she's understood the question properly or because she loves creative writing she will want to share something that she is particularly proud of. At beginning of lockdown I did ask her teachers to send me Maths and Science schemes of work. I know she's doing the Tempest for English. I know what she's doing in geography, RS and history because I will pop into her room between my meetings at work to see if she's OK and tbh some of the topics are interesting like in RS they are doing about feminism in religion so we have a chat about interesting topics.

I ask, and i get a grunt, short description.

Books? No books. All on line. I get a text to say work has been completed and submitted. We can’t all be there to watch and supervise.

No, I don’t supervise or check. I hear about what she’s found interesting (or not) and generally she tells me about tests, but day-to-day it’s between her and her teachers. But she has mostly live, online lessons and the school is very on top of things, so I trust them to let me know if there’s something I need to know about.

I’m a teacher and during the first lockdown there was virtually no live content (for her or me) so I was able to sit down with her and help because we could manage our own timetables. This lockdown it’s been impossible as there’s virtually no time when one or other of us isn’t live. It’s a real shame, I think she had a better quality of learning first time round because she basically had 1-1 tuition and I could check her work before she submitted it and challenge her to go back and do a bit more if it wasn’t her best work. Completely accept that every family is different though, and I know that many have found live lessons useful.

It’s becoming obvious that as they’re supposed to becoming more independent my son needs more help, not with the work, he’s smart enough, but with deadlines, organisation, it skills.
And I’m having a really hard time with it.

If he was pleasant I would love helping/teaching, but he’s absolutely horrible.
We are trying to get a diagnosis, he has mild dyslexia confirmed and waiting on adhd.
Is this my life? I have to work through his GCSE’s with him?