Ours are doing live lessons (2ndary), but haven't been taught any new material since lockdown originally started in March because the school said it was impossible to do remotely and wouldn't benefit the children.
There are a high number of disruptive children in her year, unfortunately, so a lot of the teacher's time is been spent trying to control them and getting them to pay attention, which means the kids that get on with things are just left to their own devices, and that was the case pre covid too.
They've only allowed live lessons since November as before that they said it was a safe guarding issue.
Previously to mid November, 1 task per day was set via the school platform and they had to complete this alone and it was taking over a week for teachers to get back to her with any queries/help she needed, which rendered it pretty pointless. They've also changed to a different exam board in some subjects, which hasn't helped things, as it means some topics they've already revised now aren't needed because they're not included.
My dd is in yr11 so she's really suffering with things and is so stressed that she won't do as well in her mocks, etc.
Her target grades are all 9s and she is achieving mostly 7s, with one 6 and two 8s atm, which they call her current grades.
They have since added a predicted grade to this term's report, which has never been there before and these are generally 1 above what her current grade is for each subject.
She is really worried that all these issues will affect what she is able to do at 6th form and what subjects she will be able to take.
After going through things with a tutor it turns out that she is missing big chunks of the curriculum, which although we knew it was still shocking. Eg, in physics they've only covered 15% of the content.
We tried to talk to the school about it as we were worried, especially when they cancelled the Triple Science GSCE she was doing and put all those students into the Combined Science GSCE class as they admitted they hadn't taught them enough of the curriculum to do well, but they really took offence and although our dd has always had the top mark for attitude to work, etc, and even a day before was receiving merits for behaviour/attitude, etc, she is suddenly being given the bottom marks, which basically says she doesn't engage at all, is disruptive constantly, doesn't hand in any work, etc, which is so far from the truth it's laughable.
Doing this change with the science hasn't helped as they've been learning things in a different order and the teacher has said she won't be going over any topics that the Triple Science class have missed that the Combined class have already done as they don't have time.
We've been lucky enough to be able to afford a tutor 3x a week since the 19th Dec break, but that's costing us £80/pw and isn't sustainable indefinitely.
I don't really know what would be for the best, tbh, but this situation sucks big time for our children. Especially those in exam years. It is so unfair that the quality of the online provision varies so much, but you could say that about any school pre covid, as teaching quality between schools has always been variable.