Home learning vent

Gum-boots

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….

PuddingPlease

Gum-boots

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?

MrsT

Gum-boots

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

NightHawk

Gum-boots

We just don’t do it and get marked absent. My DD refuses.

LadySybilVimes

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.

Gum-boots

It’s a public school. Sigh…..

There’s no way we are doing it all. We can’t hold down our jobs and do what they are asking.

PuddingPlease

Gum-boots

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.

LadySybilVimes

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?

Gum-boots

Thanks all it’s made me feel like I’m not being unreasonable. I’m going to write to the school this weekend.

Chookas

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!

CallMeAl

That’s fucked, I’d escalate it.

AnnHiggins

i hear you - it’s not on. it’s awful

RichardParker

That’s completely unreasonable. I’d not be doing it.

Gum-boots

The Principal has just loaded a message on the school FB page saying the sudden uptick in registrations for next week is unacceptable.

DUDE…… it’s because you are making it so hard for people!

We are not one of those families by the way but I’m writing to her today. They need to calm down.

LadySybilVimes

God, they’re being ridiculous. Tell ‘em they’re dreaming.

MrsT

I thought my daughter’s school was a bit over the top but she’s in a selective High School, so it’s expected. For little tiny kids? They can fuck right off.