Anyone else totally done with home schooling?

[Louise000000]

I'm so over this now. 2 school age kids 6 and 8 and the work load is vast. I'm on my own and also have a wild 4 year old. We were into a good routine of me sitting with one for a few hours while the other played with my boy then vice versa.
This week I'm done, cannot be arsed with any more!!

Well to do nothing between now and 11th of august is still a long time. REad a chapter a day, Do BBc bitesize lesson, Use online prgrammes such as my maths, whiterosemaths, Spellingshed, and isee maths.

We're on half term but last week it was getting very tiresome and groundhog day ish. The work being set is boring and repetitive so I've had to start supplementing it to keep them engaged.

We'll see what happens after half term but I think I might back off a bit, the summer term should be fun with outdoor lessons, sports day, trip etc so I might try and take on some of that.

In England we have all the nice weather while they are at school so they are sweltering. Then they break up late July and the sky instantly turn grey and the nights start drawing in

Oh so true! We also have the 3.25pm downpour, I lost track of how many times we had been in school dripping sweat and five minutes before the bell the heavens would open up. Many the day I still had pupils in my room at 4pm waiting for it to ease off.

We read every bedtime together so reading not an issue. The girls are constantly making and drawing things too.
We are outside, playing, putting bugs into the bug magnifying glass, using their imaginations, making a shop etc etc
I doubt many kids would be behind from a few weeks off the online work set.
As I said we only have 4 weeks left anyway and the last week they do fun stuff

The three kids are playing a really fun sounding game together and they have been at it for hours, it's a shame to interrupt them!
Aww sounds lovely. Leave them and restart tomorrow

I’d say that they have more than the last week doing less than usual, so you’re fine if you start to slow it down as you only have four weeks left of term. Children work right up until the last week of every other term, but term six is full of rehearsals for sports day, school play and there’s usually a trip that takes them out of school for at least a day. If they’re reading every day, you’re onto a good thing.

Were parents ever told they had to home school? Yes. We the school is set up on google classrooms, daily work emailed.
I'd love to tell them I'm stopping.
I'll give it another week.

We've given up. Also in Scotland. I have a job which requires a lot of dealing with people on the phone and in Zoom meetings when they are in stressful situations. My 6 year old getting same as yours and now refusing to do any of it while I work. I can't work and home school her. DH out at work all day, so I get no break at all. Have a 12 year old who can just get on with it thankfully but 6 year old gone completely rogue and I don't blame her. I'm not a teacher, home schooling can't work when I'm working, and we're in a crisis. Keeping everyone happy, and doing my job as best I can is all I'm aiming for. The little kids will catch up. We're lucky we don't have kids either doing exams or going into 4th yea in August.