Homework during home learning

[FallenSky]

DS is in year 8. Has ASD and ADHD. Finding home learning a challenge. He has 5 full hour sessions with a 20 minute morning break and 30 minute lunch. No break between lessons so not getting his usual movement breaks. I'm encouraging him to stand up, jog on spot etc. Anyway, he's doing his best but I can see he's struggling. The newest battle is with homework. He's not being set it for every lesson but I'd say he has on average another 1-1.5 hours of homework each night. He just won't do it. I'm at a loss. I'm loathe to contact the school because I think they're all bloody amazing and I can see how much work his teachers are doing at the moment. But I also need to think about our home life and decide whether making him do the homework and the battle that follows is actually worth the stress it will cause all of us.

If you have a secondary child, are they being assigned homework on top of home learning and if so, are they happy to do it?

That sounds a lot of commitment. 5 hours of video lesson + extra 1~1.5 hours homework sounds a lot.

I have yr8 dc too, and we have no live lessons, just powerpoint and prerecorded video, so very flexible. He spends average 4~5 hours each day for assigned work, that's it.

My son is 10 so not secondary age yet but he definitely would also get really stressed out at this amount of work, I think your son is already doing so well with all of the lessons. I would scrap homework for now, they're doing more than enough, it can just be too much on us all sometimes. I'm sure school would be ok if you explained. xx

That sounds really difficult OP.

I think it would be worth contacting the school, as your DS is unlikely to be the only child struggling, with what is a lot of hw, on top of the online school day.

My year 7 DD's school have suspended all hw for the time being, after a parent survey. I am so relieved, as although DD was getting through it, it was getting to be such a struggle, and just too much pressure, and she was sad and down enough as it was about not being in school.

I do think it’s essential you open up a dialogue with the school - stress you aren’t being critical and are thrilled with all their efforts so far, but that your ds just isn’t coping with having to do the lessons online and then try to mentally get through homework as well. I think you’ll find it’s a more common issue you than you think, and they’ll be nice about it.