Anyone on the verge of giving up on homeschooling?

[Lemons1571]

It’s crap isn’t it. I seem to remember they were off for 17 weeks last spring/summer, and by the time we got to 14 weeks no one on here was managing more than half an hour a day, if that. No idea how this works now the schools have to monitor attendance but surely we can’t keep this up. Particularly if you have other kids, lack of devices, or wfh simultaneously. So unfair, and seems to be a hidden “silent” issue. Anyone else feel they’re going to crash and burn imminently?

The reality is, there isn't much they can do at home without parental input which puts a lot of pressure on parents. I feel like I'm going round and round in circles trying to please everyone and probably pleasing nobody. It's so disheartening.

I think that most parents and most teachers are really trying hard to do their best right now, and the fact that it's not working a lot of the time is usually not because parents are failures or because teachers are being useless, but because at the end of the day, no human being really know how to get around the impossible triangle of "Educating someone is a skilled job and yet unqualified parents are somehow expected by society to be able to do this WHILE simultaneously clinging onto their own job in a recession."

I maintain that it might have been better to have suspended the curriculum for a month while warning everyone that the summer holiday will be shortened to two weeks (staggered by region so that the entire country does not go on holiday for the same two-week period).

@bookworm14 that sounds exactly like my YR1 ds! Will not engage at all, turns into an excruciating tantrum. Did you give up on phonics?
I now use khan academy kids and bytesize but have had to ditch the work set by school because as soon as I attempt it he goes apeshit (I'm WFH so haven't got time or patience for the fight). Thankfully the teacher is fine with the resources he's otherwise accessing.

[quote Kittyninja]@bookworm14 that sounds exactly like my YR1 ds! Will not engage at all, turns into an excruciating tantrum. Did you give up on phonics?
I now use khan academy kids and bytesize but have had to ditch the work set by school because as soon as I attempt it he goes apeshit (I'm WFH so haven't got time or patience for the fight). Thankfully the teacher is fine with the resources he's otherwise accessing.[/quote]
We are still plodding on with it but it’s exhausting. She is bright and understands perfectly well what she’s being asked to do - just won’t engage. I may give up if it carries on like this.

So just finished, youngest's was easy today. However I have to input the answers for her, she can't do it, or work her way round. Read 4 books on the Oxford owls site.
The eldest's was fine yesterday, but poor today, far too much work, and the integration was rubbish, faulty slides etc.

I've completed a degree thru the OU, fully integrated learning, marvellous experience. The current situation is a mish mash and an unworkable mess.

It's really hard - we don't have enough devices that work properly to complete online work, the DC are at different levels, one child has to be nagged, cajoled and lead by the hand through all the work or he'll be found sneakily playing video games (all confiscated), they both want continuous snacks and toilet breaks (no, you've just had lunch), I'm supposed to be completing WFH work, and I'm recovering from mild covid, and going to my other work three days a week.... but its not as bad as last time. No one cries on a daily basis at least.

The school took on board the feedback and its so much better this time. Plus, where before I demand DH get involved because he wasn't working, now I've demanded he stays out of the way, or he's a work anyway - he added to the stress horrendously. Now I just have simmering resentment that he gets away with not pitching in.

I have a 6 years old twins.
They are both at different classes, so each of them have different stuff to do.
The amount of homework's is ridiculous- I'm basically doing 30 minutes each and then repeat till each of them have cca 2 hrs of learning.
I'm getting frustrated and feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff they are expecting parents to do.
My dd seems to forget a lot of stuff they already learned at school and they still getting loads of new stuff to learn and it's just malinger confused.
So I have to slow down.

Im struggling too. SAHM so last time I got on fine.
This time i have a 4 month old and trying to juggle it isn't easy.