Arghhhhhhh Our school is sending emails, loading worksheets on google classroom, sending log ins for reading eggs and mathletics and also vis Flexi schools. It’s too much! We’ve also just been told if we don’t upload photos by four pm EVERY DAY as evidence all “must do” activities are completed (three per day per child) our children will be marked absent. One of the teachers rang today and I explained we both work full time and can do a max of 1.5 hours per day and they were like oh yeah that’s cool and completely understand but we will have to mark you absent oh and you need to be online by 8:30 or we will also mark you absent. Rigggggght. How on earth is this meant to work really? These kids are 5 and 7 and it won’t be the worst thing in the world if they do some readers and some basic maths and leave it at that. It’s like they WANT us to give up and send them to school….

CoolasaCucumber That’s completely insane, my children are the same age and the expectations are nowhere near that. It sounds completely unworkable in your circumstances. Not that attendance is really a big deal to you anyway but in previous lockdowns any engagement with online learning over the space of a day was considered sufficient for attendance to be marked off. If you don’t mind me asking, is it a private school?

CoolasaCucumber That is crazy! My DS is 7 and his teacher told me to just do what we can even if it was one thing every day. Whatever was convenient. It’s about surviving not bloody perfection

That’s really bad! Our communication has been “do what you can, just survive as best you can, we don’t want you stressed”. That’s an awful way to treat you. I’m sorry they’re being so stupid.

What’s the principal like? Can you email the school and tell them you can’t do this because you’re a human being with a job and not Mary Fucking Poppins?

CoolasaCucumber If it’s a public school then I feel like you are well within your rights to do whatever you can manage and no more and ignore their attendance requirements entirely. It’s not like they’re going to send the truancy officer out to get you. 🤣 An 8:30am log-in requirement is absurd and I think it suggests that the school is not prioritising families mental health the way they should be. Home learning is not school and insisting that students keep to the same schedule, and that parents do whatever is required to facilitate that, seems unhelpful for everyone.

Yeah, I think I’d be emailing and copying the principal in. Very calm but firm, that is way too much and simply can’t be done and they can pull they’re heads in. Good luck!

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