Some people are just nasty and often teachers gleeful that somehow this situation means they get to make snide "see how you like it now" comments. I'd like to see a teacher negotiate with 30 adults to be honest and run some reports on SQL all while trying to convince a 7 year old and 5 year old that the crappy worksheet Mrs so and so has sent is worth their interest.
We've done some school work but the format of sending lacklustre worksheets and scrappy resources that might work well in a classroom but really don't work at home is wearing thin. There's no marking, no feedback, no contact, no adapting, it's poor. What worked well for a few weeks doesn't work well for 6 months. I don't think any teacher has any clue what it's like to work all day at a job that's not teaching and then have to teach multiple age ranges of your own children using resources that someone else has sent.
Children have the right to an education, but this isn't a right that the parents have to provide, it's the state and never have children been denyed schooling to this extent.
I have two choices, either keep trying with the work the teachers send that my children who are bright and academically able find dull or find some way to be educated enough about these things to find alternative resources. I've tried all the above and it's driven me a bit mad. Of course I can try my own version of making shit up but God knows if that would help or hinder then come the next academic year, whenever that starts.
I think we need to get away from what we have now that posting worksheets on a portal is providing an education, because it isn't and as parents we shouldn't be shouldering the fallout and bearing that responsibility, neither should our children.
Our responsibility is to raise our children, look after their health and wellbeing, look after our health and wellbeing, do our jobs, pay our bills and engage in education as much as we can, but it's a two way street.