Refusing to homeschool

[SonicTheSorryRabbit]

Curious about this...

How many parents have simply decided that they're not doing homeschooling? Either because they're wfh and can't balance that with homeschooling or because it's too much for their kids and making them miserable?

If you're not homeschooling, (i) are you getting a hard time from the school?; and (ii) what are your kids doing instead?

YABU - we're homeschooling.

YANBU - we never started/we've given up.

The education system says that they are not childcare providers. Parents can equally argue that they aren't teachers. We were marked as non attending when school closed due to COVID month before Christmas.I told them in advance that online lessons weren't suitable. The teachers did their best. We went sledging.

They have to use a special code when you don't engage during lock downs, and overall attendance statistics shouldn't be affected. Children's statistics are based on 'available school sessions'. That said I don't know about Wales, Scotland & Ireland.

@Casschops we've got to that point. Hard to explain to the teacher that I didn't have time to look at the portal for all the home learning, but I did have time to spend the week making a Papier mache stone age axe with the kids. But for me one activity is me doing something without the kids and the other is me doing something with the kids. Only 24 hours in the day and only really 12 the kids are awake for.

Last year we put school work first and the only people it benefited were the school. I'm not teacher bashing but the reality was when I was downloading or uploading something they didn't have to think about my kids at all. My kids hated it, they didn't learn anything it was almost all revision.

So this time putting kids wellbeing, work and my husband and me first. Feel much happier, the kids are fine. I can be mum and not a poor imitation of a teacher

Havent RTFT so apologies if I'm repeating what PPs have said. Last lockdown was a nightmare as I had to print off all the set work and stand over the two DCs (early secondary) and explain / nag from dawn to dusk. After half an hour they'd beg to have a break, it was so hard to keep them on task..

This time they have online lessons and I borrowed a laptop from school, they have one each and we are lucky enough to have two rooms with tables so they log on for their first lesson and then follow their normal timetable. Lessons are partly F2F and then some set work so they aren't staring at screens all day (ditto the poor teachers) and PE etc is set tasks. I do have to support a bit and help printing things occasionally, but they know what they have to do so I'm not the bad guy! Soooo much better.

It's not ideal but academically miles better than last time.

I agree op. It’s tough to do very little with dds. I have to work full time and they need constant supervision. It’s all I can do to keep it together.

Why has anyone been ‘thrown under a bus ‘ why this phrase ?
It’s a pandemic
It’s chaos
I’m a single parent working FT
And not massively homeschooling my kids either
It is what it is - terrible for everyone
Some are lonely , some are unemployed some are bereaved
Some are working night shifts in ICU

All this thrown under the bus shit really annoys me
Just crack on

I'm about to give up on online lessons too. I've invested in workbooks and we are going to follow our own path with maths, English, and reading.

The 2x30 min live lessons and 2+ hours of work that inevitably take longer can get out of our lives. DD is only 6 and the negativity it brings into our home is no longer welcome. I given it a really good go, 2 weeks pre Christmas and again since beginning of Jan.
Im sick of spending 12-14 hours tied to my desk working my full time job and DDs school work. The extra 4-6 hours at that desk is being redistributed to get us out of the house and enjoying family time, we'll curl up with a book of our choice, I'll sit at the table supporting her go thru workbooks at her own pace, we will take a local map and she can plan is a walk then lead it, we will bake, and watch films etc.

DDs teacher puts a lot into the work, but it's in no way a substitute for being in school and taught like DDs friends are reporting back. Two teachers per year, one in school doing full lessons with kids face to face, with TA support. One at home doing online lessons with a TA watching while drinking cups of tea looking bored to tears, and then it's down to me and DD to suffer trying to get the work done, too much of it is along the lines of "write some sentences that....", which really means we battle for an hour while I try to get DD to do her own sentences then I give in and just tell her what to write. No thanks.