I get that it was a great message to give to parents that they are not teachers and that anything that they can do while schools are shut to help is great.
But after our school sent out that message, the amount of my class who is doing anything that I set has dropped from about half-3/4 down to a handful of kids. Sometimes just one or two.
It does mean there's less time being spent having to give feedback on it all, but also means I'm finding it tempting to begrudge the time it takes to do it.
One fb friend is a parent of a child in my class. If there was homeschooling competition then she'd win first place, but very, very little of what they are doing is anything we are setting.
Which is great - her child is learning and enjoying it. And she's happy doing it.
But I worry about all the kids who have no support at home to do anything, or who have put their foot down and are refusing to, or who just took the 'don't worry' message to mean don't bother.
I have y6 and worry about the knock on for next year for some of them.