Kids go back to school if they aren’t doing all of their online school?

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I have heard that this is happening in a particular school. If your child doesn’t do all their work they will have a week or so to improve or be sent back to school! But there could be a good reason why they aren’t doing it, e.g mental health, family issues, not having the all the proper equipment. Opinions?

You make it sound as if going back to school is a punishment!

Surely if a child is falling behind, for whatever reason, this offer is a good thing?

Watch lots of parents banning their children from working at home in the hope of getting them a full time school place!

Surely that's a good thing. If there are reasons why a child can't work at home, then they should be in school. Pretty much makes them vulnerable anyway.

I would imagine that would be a lot of the children back at school then.

Actually if this is the case I'll be telling my DS not to bother with his schoolwork for the rest of the week. As I would prefer him to be doing his work at school with his teachers rather than at home.

I wish my school were doing that!

I’m finding it very challenging to get my DC to do anything at home, far too many distractions here, they’d definitely be learning more at school.

But on a more serious note, if there are issues at home preventing a child from doing the work, for whatever reason, surely it’s better for the child’s education to be at school where there’s a better chance that the work can be done?

(Excepting children who can’t return for medical reasons, such as children who are shielding)

No idea where you have heard this. Schools have been told to bring back specific years, and havent been given much, if any, leeway on that. As a teacher if my kids havenr been completing work we have emailed home to offer help and support. Some kids have genuine issues (lack of parental support at home as parents are working, no technology, bereavement, mental health issues) and some parents havent even bothered to pick up the phone or email back over the last 10 weeks. We certainly cannot bring kids back if they arent working, but if we were able it would be as a form of support, not as some sort of punishment without understanding for situations.

Where on earth did you hear that?

My daughters school is doing it

I guess it comes under vulnerable kids if they dont have the tech to do it or parents around to make them do it

Great, so tech issues aside, the kids who are not engaging in the home learning set are now going to be in school refusing to work instead. Oh joy!

I suspect it's about parents abdicating responsibility more than tech. In our area, all those without access to internet or computer have either been supplied with both or offered a school place. So now schools are looking to the pupils who are consistently not logging on but don't come under already targeted groups.

Give schools have no responsibility to
Provide on line school and many like our primary are not then I do not think it is workable as a policy unless there was a change on obligation require schools to set and monitor work being done online and I don’t think teachers would be happy with that!!...there are apparently very good reasons why they cannot mark work done at home!

Those schools must have hugely more capacity than most schools then! And flexibility in staffing, there's no way of predicting who will come in really.

And they can't make it compulsory, parents can still choose not to send them!

It sounds perfectly reasonable to me - mental health might be improved by being in school, family issues - again gives them a chance to be in a different environment, not having the all the proper equipment - so send them somewhere where they can access the equipment. If instead a child is being a bit lazy and won't engage then going into school would be a good thing. What is the problem with that approach?

My kids have gone back full time this week (reception and year 4). I am so relieved - they are over the moon to be back and I'm over the moon to not have to do home school anymore. Key workers children were invited back full time and they have also opened up spaces to reception and year 6.

Bit of a kick in the teeth for those who’ve pushed themselves to the edge of sanity, by working 15 hours a day to cover both their job plus hours of homeschool. Their reward is yet more homeschool and to be at the back of the priority list to get their kids any actual face to face teacher time.

I suspect it's about parents abdicating responsibility more than tech.

Well we have a lack of a available tech - one laptop between 3 children.

My ds is going once a week (he could go all week but this is the best we can do) as he was not working at home. It isn't about abdicating responsibility (I still have the plate spinning) but about his needs.

Oh and fwiw he does work at school, because school is where one does their school work. One does not do school work at home. That is perfect logical reasoning.

@Thegreatwave, I am sorry if you have taken my comment personally. There are families like yours (and mine - 4 DC, 1 laptop and 1 ye olde ipad) who are slipping through the cracks because as parents we are not apathetic to our children's education and know that for them to achieve anywhere near their potential, we have to keep plodding on.

But it gets my goat when I see parents all over social media seemingly proud of how little work their DC are doing, or how it isn't important and they will catch up eventually. My 2 SEN children have to fight hard in every lesson, and they do try so damn hard to make and keep their gains. No EHCP because they come in just under the threshold for one so have SEN support instead. But instead of prioritising those who try hard but aren't quite there, the schools might throw their resources, time, money, at pupils who neither want to be there nor want to do the work. It just gets me.

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Yep. I know a school doing that too

mini my DS doesn't have an ECHP either, and like your children have fallen straight through the massive holes in the net, it is truly rubbish.

I basically ended up crying over his form tutor, head of year and senco and they offered him a place, but actually I shouldn't have had to get to breaking point before something was sorted.

For him it has been great, I know he is now doing work - albeit only 4 or 5 hrs a week, but that is more than he did all together last half term.

He doesn't do homework, school work at home was always going to be a challenge.

All the best for yours though, it's been a tough time.

Well if they don’t have equipment, are experiencing mental health issues or their are family issues in the home then being at school is probably a good place for them.

Well if that is to be the case I will most definitely be telling my DC to stop doing any work so they can get a place at school.

I'm not doing any of the school work with the kids. They finished it about 3 weeks ago and we weren't given more... I've been teaching them myself instead. They do a few hours a day of maths, english and reading. I'd find it quite funny if they were sent back in for lack of engagement- the reason DD isn't back in school is because they're still doing the same packs there , that we finished some time ago.

Well if those at home are doing as asked, they can carry on like that.

Those not managing it for whatever reason can go in and get help.

It sounds ok.