Is anyone else going to find it next to impossible to home school their children?

[DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou]

This is really getting me down. Proper parent guilt incoming.

I've got reams of emails from the kids schools tell me what I can do/need to get done, places to find work.

Then there's all the parents in fb with their great homeschooling pics and ideas and creations.

Not only are we all in isolation, coughing our bladders into our pants (ok that bits just me) and fevers rocketing, I've got lecturers doing live feeds of in-depth lectures and interactive group work, assignments to do, and exams to prep for (the uni are being very understanding but if I can't complete the degree without the work, so putting it all off for weeks is simply going to bottleneck my work around dissertation time), then I've got a placement to do after next week in A&E,
and I've got a baby and two childminders for two kids who both said childcare's off every card.

But during all this bollocks I've got to HOME SCHOOL THE FUCKING CHILDREN.

Fuck sake.

2 not 12

My children are opposites. One academically gifted and the other snd . I am degree educated but my subject is specialist and of no help here. I’m no teacher. I’m poor enough that I have 1 computer. Youngest dd school are setting 3 hours a day school work, eldest 5 hours. But I have to work. We all share a computer ffs. Does everyone else have a computer each?! I’m poor and have forgotten the norm, but surely an 8 and 13 year old aren’t expected a computer each?

my main worry is that instead if feeding then once a day, I now have to feed them thrice a day, with £300 less per month than I’m in office, when the school gave then breakfast and dinner 5 days a week, how do I bridge that gap?

There is also a lot of educational videos on YouTube, my favourites are by CrashCourse, they do videos on lots of different subjects.
I will attach some links of other websites that help me home educate myself :)

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize

www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses

www.khanacademy.org/

I can add more links to other sites if that would be helpful, also as a home educated student I could try to answer any questions you may have about different ways to keep your children motivated etc.

Just do whatever you can. Like everyone else.

Waitingforadulthood

as we dont do school i dont know how free school meals work

but on my facebook its come up that if you are in receipt of them contact your local council and they are providing a dinner per kid per day

im wales so dont know if thats every where

I just saw this and thought of this thread twitter.com/SuePenna/status/1240684876690382850?s=09

Just do what you need to do to get through this and the rest will sort itself out. People on fb etc have nothing better to do now than tell everybody else how awesomely they’re handling it right now but it’s bollocks. Just get through, it won’t be for ever.

@TAKESNOSHITSHIRLEY

I came on to say exactly the same thing - long term HE'rs here and what we are doing now is nothing like the HE we have done for the last god knows how many years.

All our clubs and groups closed down this week so we are a week further in. I guess we maybe have more resources and maybe more experience of finding things for our kids to do.

But honestly folk we spend an average 1 hr a day on reading writing maths written project type stuff - we do 5 mins reading every day and the rest in a couple of mornings - all the rest of the time is spent out and about at groups or activities. Really annoyed at the number of friends who have contacted us asking for schedules - we have been saying for years that this is not how HE works.

We are as clueless as the rest of you on how to manage our kids at home full time.

We are in France, 5 DCs. The older ones are getting assignments sent via the internet and seem to be getting on with it. DC4 is being sent manageable amounts. DC5 aged 7 is getting about 8 hours’ worth of really boring exercises a day AND a sodding art project that we are meant to do in our free time, as if we had any, AND we are asked to let the children cook a favourite recipe. As if we had ingredients to spare or time to clean up the kitchen after letting the children trash it. I have decided to ignore that teacher and freestyle.

It is not important.

Gemma2019 you should still have school for your son, kids with SEN or vulnerable in other ways / looked after / statemented (I’m old and can’t recall the new terminology) are all able to be in school still.

We won't be doing any if it! I have back to back calls lined up with 100s of NHS sites (supporting getting them with digital implementation to support emergency care). My two (foster) children are 7 and 5. They can't do schoolwork unsupervised (the youngest can't read). Ditto for crafts. We don't have a tablet or PC for them to use. They will be playing in their room or watching tv. I will do some reading with them in the evenings.

@Adarajames thank you - that is usually the case but my son's school has made the decision to close until further notice and will not even open for children of keyworkers. With SEN schools the government lets the school leadership decide whether they open or not, and they have decided that there is too high a percentage of medically vulnerable children to keep them all safe. Plus at SEN schools many of the children have no awareness of personal space or social distancing!

Schools are obliged to set work for pupils but in the midst of all this it's no big deal if you don't do formal homeschooling. I'm a secondary teacher and have been setting work for my pupils; I'm expecting about half of them to do it and that's fine. My own dd is in year 9 and I've told her not to bother logging in to the school website. She's going to read and paint and watch some wildlife documentaries and learn to cook some new meals. I couldn't give stuff about her schoolwork. Cut yourself some slack, we're in the middle of a national emergency.

@AnnaFiveTowns can I ask if you will be marking or assessing the work you are setting for your pupils or is it purely just something to keep them occupied while they are at home?

Saw this....