Parents in Italy

[Seventyone72seventy3]

Thought a new thread would be better for this! How is the home schooling going and are you actually doing it?

I have children in 4 elementare and they have been sent a random selection of boring worksheets and told to teach rivers! I must admit we have fallen behind and am just tempted to do our own thing but don't know if this will have consequences down the line.

Also have a child in secondo liceo which seems more organised (currently doing a video lesson). Just wondered how it's going?

[NoHunGosh]

I'm sooooo lucky my DS is in his last year of kindergarten. Only had a few suggestions for Father's Day creations and no homework. Making him do Teach Your Monster to Read and some Jolly Phonics workbooks I ordered ages ago. However, I am spending lots of time listening to my expat mates cry down the phone (and into their wine) with frustration at trying to get homework done.

[TheCanterburyWhales]

Buongiorno!
Not bad tbh. DD is terzo linguistico and they're doing about 4 lessons a day and complaining like mad so things must seem relatively normal!
I can imagine little ones must be a lot harder.
I teach in the same school as DD and so get to see the teachers' WhatsApp group as well which is an education in itself of "protagonismo" those proud to be more technological than NASA and those who have literally not been heard or seen since the schools closed.
But dd's class is on a virtually full timetable since day 1 which is great. A bit of normality for them.

[Seventyone72seventy3]

DS often walks round the house with his lessons playing on his phone droning on and they sound pretty boring tbh! Some talk here of possibly doing video lessons for elementare but I really hope not as I just don't think I will be able to get younger son to do them! Their teachers are so not into technology (only got a whiteboard a month before closing the school). Despite also supposedly teaching technology at school, they don't do it and it has become clear with this crisis that they don't really know how to produce worksheets in word or send them. (Been sent handwritten notes via WhatsApp). So much for elearning!

[Seventyone72seventy3]

@TheCanterburyWhales Ciao! Are you teaching from home too?

[Seventyone72seventy3]

One positive in all this is that ds10 who normally refuses to speak English and who is not great in English is coming on in leaps and bounds - a side effect of being with me all day and binge watching probably unsuitable American series on Netflix.

[TheCanterburyWhales]

Yes, I'm a lettrice in the classico but I'm an experiment (of 7 yrs) so it's not together with the "real" English teacher.
I'm partita IVA too so it's a godsend that the preside said I should continue as well.

The teachers group are currently having a fight, ancient Greek and Philosophy saying everyone should stay at home and read Dante because no video lesson can substitute the human touch (the latter very true, but coming from the same people who have doggedly copied and pasted trade union 'we are not obliged to work" stuff for weeks, sticks in the craw.
Laughed though earlier when some old dinosaur posted "Io sono Una mamma, Una Donna e una docente" and I thought fuck! Didn't know we had Meloni on the staff.

[Seventyone72seventy3]

That's great that you still have your job! I don't understand why some of ds's teachers don't modify their lessons a bit - they could tell them to read a bit more for example but no, they are still reading I Promessi Sposi at the same glacial pace they do in class.

I am doing lessons from home which are going ok. But depressing when you see who's online, ask someone to answer a question and discover they have logged on but are obviously off doing something else instead.

[TheCanterburyWhales]

I know!
For the benefit of all of us, I have just spent a saddo half hour finding the Istat statistics for multi-generational families because I think if I read one more time that we all live with nonna I'll explode.
In 2016 it was 1.2% of the population. I don't know if that makes a difference to Covid infections obviously but it's not a massive number.
I'm going to now spend another saddo half hour trying to find the UK figures

[TheCanterburyWhales]

Which according to the guardian is 1.8 million households. So, almost exactly the same taking into account slight population variances.
I imagine the multi generation homes in UK are more likely to be middle aged parents plus their single parent daughters and children rather than the nonni though.