To bin off the homeschooling

[Lemons1571]

God I’m probably BU. But bloody hell I've had enough. 14 weeks of working ft, plus trying to fit in twinkl, Oak, Khan etc. Watching my Year 4 get more isolated and sad. Feeing like a loser / outsider when the school send out their weekly newsletter asking Reception to bring in x, y and z and Year 6 to remember their deposit for (insert end of year activity).

Honestly the thought of Monday makes me want to throw things at the wall, and it’s not even Sunday yet! Got a bunch of corrections sent through on last weeks schoolwork which I now have to try and fit in around Skype work calls, deadlines, appraisals. Anyone else just about had it? So tempted to tell child to not worry about it too much and have some screen time.

I don’t need help with coping or with mood or anything like that. I just need to not have two full time jobs.

tomorrow’s another day

Yes just tell them it’s holidays and forget it.

It’s the schools problem to catch them up in the autumn.

@GuiltyBark

*CallMeAngelina

"If your school is sending work through, but you're not able to do it (for entirely understandable reasons), why are you railing at children's education being "entirely neglected?" *

Because their education is being entirely neglected. I can't do it. The school can't. Their education is, as a result neglected, ultimately.

And again @GuiltyBark I am nodding furiously to your comment. It is an absolutely ridiculous situation and it's clearly not remotely a government priority

CountessFrog, I think there's something seriously wrong with your comprehension skills. Either that, or you are confusing me with someone else. I have never said, on here or anywhere else that children's education is nothing to do with teachers! Why would I, when it's not true and that's not what I believe?
Yes, I have called out teacher-bashing when I have seen it and you are one of the worst offenders.

Mine is year 1 but he’s not gone back.
I’m trying to do 2 pages of math and 2 pages of English each day, along with the normal reading.
Oak academy doesn’t work on my laptop for some reason and I can’t get purple mash to work so we are issuing booklets I’ve bought instead.
My sons school don’t seem to give a flying fig if they’ve done work or not, so I’m taking advantage and we are mostly just playing and watching movies and going for walks and driving past the grandparents house and chatting to the neighbours and painting and drawing.

You can’t work from home full time and teach young children at home. Something has to give and for most keeping their job is the priority and education will happen in September when they are back in school.

Personally, I'd get the kids to power through these last few days of June, and then start summer holidays on the first of July! Which is technically summer holiday month start anyway. ;)

Everyone is sick to the back teeth of homeschooling. You won't be the only one!

If you’re really struggling I would relax it and maybe do only half the work set, or have Mon & Tues off and start mid-week.
My normally very compliant and diligent DD y6 has now lost a lot of motivation and is skipping pieces she doesn’t fancy due to not being able to face it. It’s getting impossible to supervise whilst trying to work FT from home. She hasn’t gone back (not enough room ☹️) which is hard as she’s in a weird limbo, prematurely finished primary not yet started high school.

In the short term, far more important to keep your job and bin off home schooling. They will always catch up. But if you lose your job then you’re all even more negatively affected.
I’m so glad DS is pre-school - he has gone back to nursery as well! All to keep the money going around...

Thank you all. It’s sometimes hard to actually realise that so many are in the same boat as we’re all so isolated!

I think I will tell him to do the bits he fancies, and maybe have a go at the maths but not worry if it’s too difficult. We’d already largely binned off some of the nice-to-have - it’s unlikely to be the end of his world if he skips Romans / Saxons / Egyptians.

I think parents were willing to give it thier best shot to begin with, assuming it would last perhaps 2 weeks, maybe a month.

But now we are in to week 14 I think, certainly by the end of term it will have been 1.5 terms, the equivalent to half a school year.
No one can keep that up, especially if they are working full time too.

I'd stop now if I were you,or cut it down to one piece of work a day, 30 mins or so, and keep that going right through the summer, just to keep the work ethic going, but dont push it.
30mins of bbc bitesize games a day should be do-able.

@CountessFrog

Call me Angela, you’ve spent weeks shouting on here that children’s education is noting to do with teachers.

You accuse people of teacher bashing when they aren’t.

You accuse people of jumping on threads to teacher bashing and ‘goad.’

And yet here you are, on a thread started by stressed out parents, seeking these threads out to come and spout your usual opinions. Exactly what you accuse others of doing.

I think that what you actually mean is that she has been correcting the misinformation spread by you and others.

What, when Government orders were that schools were to close for all but the very few Key Worker children?
So, I ask again, what do you think should have been done? Opening for two days a week on a rota system was not an option at the time.

NOW

not when the schools were for key workers only - and that's pretty much everybody if you look at the governmental list...

BUT
when the schools opened for R, Y1 and Y6 and now they can chose to open to whoever they please.

Instead of 3 year groups going full time, it should be all year groups going part-time....

I'm so glad to read this thread! We have none no homework this week yet. I'm a single working parent, it's too much. I feel so much better to know there are others in this situation. I was feeling like such a shit parent

I'm struggling to engage my 6yo with any work now and I'm a sahm. We are just going to try to watch topics of interest and fun learning with some practise maths snuck in. My 4yo who starts school in September (hopefully) try to distract him to come and play. Much happier going for nature walks and counting sheep/ bugs than stuck inside on a screen.

The more I dwell on it the more angry I get and the more determined I am to bin it off. It’s totally not the right attitude I know. But I keep reading about how the kids that have gone back are loving it, learning so much more with the smaller class sizes, and basically forging ahead. While we parents at home feel like guilty criminals for not having 20 hours in the day to get our full time jobs done plus lots of core subject work, twinkl, Khan, Oak oh and must make time for those educationally nutritional extras. I’ve had it. They can fuck right off.

But I keep reading about how the kids that have gone back are loving it, learning so much more with the smaller class sizes, and basically forging ahead.
Where are you reading this? All our year groups are back (to a maximum of 15) but there isn't a huge amount of teaching/learning going on. They are covering the same tasks as are sent home to the rest, and doing a lot of outdoor play. Anything more than that is grossly unfair.

They are covering the same tasks as are sent home to the rest

That’s grossly unfair in itself. The kids at school get to cover all the tasks set for the week, in a measured way. I’m sure they must get focussed attention and help from TA’s and teachers. My child has a choice of 6am-8am or 7pm-9pm, and we both struggle together and achieve maybe 10% of the weeks planned work. I can’t see for the life of me how that isn't grossly unfair.

And I feel like it’s all my fault.

@CallmeAngelina lots of posters on other school threads on here

Well, it's not unfair, as all have been given the opportunity to return to school if they wish.
What would you suggest they do, whilst in school otherwise? There are numerous complaints on here from Key Workers who have said their children's schools don't cover the home learning tasks, and they're then having to do them in the evenings.

Yeah, I’m tempted to do this too. Kids similar age. But I think we’re going to carry on because it gives them something to do! And we only do a couple of hours a day anyway. Totally sympathise though and think do whatever you need to.

I have also had enough and doing less and less each day after having huge enthusiasm at the start (and now working 2 long days and my husband WFH in a new job he can't mess up). I have one Y6 back at school who I thought was fine being at home but who is so much happier being back at school and seeing friends. The two left at home are getting more and more despondent as time goes on so I have started meeting up with their friends outside. I agree it would have been better to arrange things to let all year groups go back part time even just for a few weeks like some schools have done. Being at home March to September is too much. Listening to our head teacher bang on about how "brave" the returners have been has sent me into a rage, what about those struggling on at home.
Anyone WFH full-time and trying to home school has my total and utter admiration!

@IHeartKingThistle my secondary school children are engaging and covering everything, with far more ease thankfully. I wouldn’t be on the starting block with french and history so it’s a good job really!

@CallmeAngelina who do you mean by “all”?

ut I keep reading about how the kids that have gone back are loving it, learning so much more with the smaller class sizes, and basically forging ahead.

that's exactly what is being said on all my local groups from local parents!

Whilst the school might pretend that there's no schooling, people (and children) are really enthusiastic about the amount of learning, and interesting learning, they are doing.

The general message is how well the school day is organised, how happy the children are and parents regretting not sending them back earlier - even from SAHM who admitted being happy with the kids at home otherwise.

[quote Lemons1571]@CallmeAngelina who do you mean by “all”?[/quote]
Nursery, Reception, Yrs 1 and 6 were invited back on June 1st. Yrs 2-5 were invited from 22nd June. Rota basis for those latter year groups.