Is anyone going to miss homeschooling?

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I am. I’m a bit worried how my youngest 2 will cope without 1:1 support/ teaching! For context DS7 was Y2 in the first lockdown and only reading to nursery level (he’d had speech problems which impacted and been really resistant to home learning after a full day of school previously). By the end of lockdown 1 he could read. Lockdown 2 we’ve been working on maths, writing, spag. He’s made huge progress and I think is now on target rather than working towards. I’m scared how he’ll cope/ keep up in school without me (I know, he has to...)
DS8 has also benefited from 1:1, and said last week he wishes I could come to school to explain the work when he doesn’t understand.
I’m really nervous for them both. Is that normal?
For context I only work PT 1-2 nights a week, plus 20h (flexible timings) a week for DH’s business so I am luckier than most.

Some things, yes.
But most bits, no. School is more than just lessons.

We move house at Easter hopefully. I'm hoping their new school places are sorted quickly... But at least I know where to find good resources now if there is an interim period.

First lockdown was fine. Work was less manic for me and I had more time to support the DC. Their schedule was more flexible so it worked around family life and we could all get out for a long walk each day. This time around it has been more intense all around. DS has to log on to 5-7 different teams meetings a day. Breaks and lunch are really short and he spends all day hopping form lesson to lesson but not really getting any work done. Focus seems more on the teachers delivering teaching, than the kids actually learning. He produced some great work last time, not so much to show this time. I've had to leave DD (primary) to her own devices this time, but she is super independent with a great work ethic and has done fantastically both times. I'll be glad for them both to be back in school. I hate to be working away and knowing they are in the house but I can't spare them a minute for them.

Yes I will miss it a bit. I like having my boys around but I won’t miss maths.
One of mine is doing so much better at home as he gets easily distracted at school and feels the need to be the class clown so people like him. My other one does much better at school because he is much more bothered about what the teacher thinks of him. He also just genuinely loves school and learning new things and the interaction of it all.

So I have mixed feelings 😀. I will be glad of the peace and the won’t miss the endless requests for food and screen time but I will definitely miss them.
Have you thought about flexi schooling them? So they go to school as normal but you have a day or a couple of afternoons with them at home. We’ve done this with both of ours in early primary school and it worked really well.

a little bit. I did enjoy some of it there were some wonderful moments. And im really going to miss my son. Im a SAHM anyway.
But my son will be so much happier at school and I wasnt a good teacher I really struggled with it my patience isn't great. It was stressful at times.
And now I can focus more on my youngest again who wasn't getting the attention she needed because I was trying to teach my son.

I didnt enjoy home schooling because it was tough trying to juggle it with everything else but my DD made good progress. Now she’s back I feel like I did after the first lockdown: that I had slogged my guts out and made good progress with her and then they seemed to do hardly anything at school. This time around, my DD (year 1) says they havent done any phonics since she went back whereas I was working really hard to keep on top of all the phonics work the school were setting in lockdown! So my DD does seem to learn more at home in Maths and English at least!

I can understand why you would wonder how your dd will cope being back when it wont be as good as one-to-one when you were giving her dedicated support but as others have suggested you could still give some extra support at home.