Remote learning vs home schooling

[Sittinonthefloor]

I know I’m unreasonable but am I alone in feeling slightly vexed at all the discussion of home schooling when what is actually happening is remote learning - work is being set and marked by teachers, in lots of cases there are regular tutor sessions etc. My own dcs are working at home but I’m definitely not ‘schooling’ them, just making they have done at least some of their tasks!

I agree they are different. if a school is providing the resources and the planning then children are remote learning.

However I think much of the public just use the two terms interchangeably, even if, when they stop to think about it, they can see there is a difference. Just like sex v gender these days.

I think it might be one of the teacher equivalents of medics watching Casualty, or police watching The Bill, and spotting all the mistakes. Just you have it on a national if not global basis.

fwiw, I think schools seem to be doing a great job switching from what is basically an interactive process to remote at the drop of a hat.

My dcs primary school are not marking work at all. Yes they are setting it but no marking.

Yes, it’s driving me mad. You’re not home schooling if you’re helping your child do work someone else has set.

I think that is true for many settings. My eldest sons school says it hasnt closed - it has moved. My son is doing remote learning all day on carefully planned lessons with feedback and all i have to do is make sure he does it.
My other son had no school place last year due to SEN and he was waiting for a special school place. We werent sent suggestions of things to do, or worksheets, or given a learning pack or rung to see if we were ok. Jo wickes didnt record a pe lesson for us and the DfE wasnt paying to set up online learning academy for the many children in our position. We were totally abandoned. So i can see the difference!
However, some primary schools are being very much more light touch with their learning suggestions and the suggestions require far more parental input to make them work.

My yr7 is getting work set for most subjects (except maths!) but needs help to understand the subject matter, and I’m marking the work because school aren’t.

My yr10 has been told to revise what he’s already covered, no work set or marked.

Feels like home schooling to me

My yr13, who no longer has exams to sit, is being asked to show up to online lessons with her class and teacher, and being set work that gets marked. I wish I could swap her school with her brothers’!

My DS school is setting specific work and given us lots of helpful ideas. We upload anything good he's done to Class Dojo and his teacher responds.
Good thing some of them are useful for our DD too as we are providing her workbooks, reading books, and working out everything she needs to do, they have a few activities each week on the class website but not much of it is accessible for her and some not for us due to IT issues.
So to be fair it is a mix.

I think people using 'home schooling' as an expression for what they are doing at the moment is why some are getting irritable about what educators do, they are assuming that we can just grab an off the peg lesson and teach it. If they can go to Twinkl/Bitesize/Oak Academy and sit a child in front of the computer to do it then perhaps they think that we do that x30 and don't really have planning to do?

It varies from school to school though and if you've got younger kids chances are you're doing a bit of teaching, you can't really hand a 5yo a worksheet and tell them to get on with it. Also some people might be ignoring the work from school and doing their own thing.

Yes, I'm thinking more of older KS2/secondary.