Year9 mindcraft versus meltdowns

[HoegaardenHappiness]

Looking for your professional opinions.

DS has Microsoft teams live lessons this time round. He is mainly diligent, dyslexic but without any help.

He is attending all the lessons but sometimes is playing mindcraft at the same time.

He does well at school, lots of good feedback.

We can remove this but will result In a MASSIVE fight. Do we just let him police himself, rather than upset the Apple cart?

I don't think I'd allow that. My son has to be at his PC all day as well (not online lessons though) and it's now in his room. He seems to be on call to his friends constantly - sometimes they don't even speak but just have each other on video, and at other times they are pretty chatty but it's 'about the work' apparently(makes me feel like I'm at work ) I check through his work at the end of the day and if it starts looking sloppy I'm going to limit the calls. I wouldn't be happy at all about him being on games during lessons though and would put a stop to it if he tried it. I know no one wants a big fall out at this point in time but in my opinion that needs to be a basic rule - he can go on that once the school day is over. I know you said he's doing well, but that's irrelevant really as he's not on Minecraft at school and I can't see how this wouldn't hinder him.

True. Thi mine isn’t on the phone to friends all the time, he could be, just seems not to bother.

Will give it a week and see how it goes

@HoegaardenHappiness

Looking for your professional opinions.

DS has Microsoft teams live lessons this time round. He is mainly diligent, dyslexic but without any help.

He is attending all the lessons but sometimes is playing mindcraft at the same time.

He does well at school, lots of good feedback.

We can remove this but will result In a MASSIVE fight. Do we just let him police himself, rather than upset the Apple cart?

Would you be happy if his teachers let him play minecraft whilst sitting in lessons in school when it's open as normal?

This can't be serious. As another poster said would you be happy if you found out teachers allowed him to play video games during the lessons?

I do hope you won't be like another poster who was on Mumsnet complaining when the teacher called to say the child was being cheeky during the online lessons when the teacher realises and calls you to ask for assistance to stop him doing this.

No doubt he will be telling his friends that he was playing minecraft in geography today and they will all decide it is ok.

There are other people on here worried about their child not getting an adequate education but you think it is ok for him to play rather than engage in his lessons. Wow!

Much less minecraft now, I think it was possible in boring lessons but not if the teacher is switched on.

At school he would be distracted by friends etc, so I didn’t see it as that bad.

The lack of distraction from others is one of the few advantages of online school which might help counter the negatives, but you go ahead and let him squander it.
And ‘boring lessons’ where the teacher isn’t ‘switched on’? For goodness sake. Not worth responding to.

All good ! Now no minecraft. No rows, just as the school’s expectations increased he stepped up.

Glad I asked, it was a helpful outlet.