I cannot manage this home schooling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they don't do the school work then they should have to repeat grade. You are the parent and it is your responsibility to ensure they do their classwork.

Lol, repeat PreK? Jesus Christ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have 3 kids - 1 in preschool and 2 in elementary. It is hard enough getting these older kids to get to their live classrooms and do their assignments. Our preschool doesn’t want to return our tuition so they also have live instruction and assignments and activities. It is such a pain to do. There are parents where their preschool child is their only child or they have an infant and a preschool child. They do all these elaborate art projects and activities. I feel like absolute crap. I’m on the brink of a nervous break.

I need the world to open back up. I cannot handle being stuck at home. I will take the risk of getting coronavirus.

"I will take the risk of getting coronavirus."

That's the problematic thinking. If you really could risk only yourself, fine. But if you get infected you can still infect others even if you have no symptoms. So you're OK with infecting your family, with your infected but asymptomatic kids infecting teachers and classmates, with you and your spouse infecting total strangers as you go back to stores and kids' activities and back to school events. If you're about to argue that you will avoid infection and practice distancing etc.--really? If you can't deal with being at home, are you truly going to maintain mask and glove and distancing protocols for months to come?

This is why we will have a second wave of infections. Because of the "I can't stand being home" people and the "I can't take dealing with homeschooling plus job" people. We get that you are frazzled and overwhelmed. Why do you not get that there is a much bigger picture beyond the walls of your house? Take control of what's inside your home. Drop the preschooling and ramp back the elementary to whatever works -- plenty of parents on these threads have done just that. But please don't think that it's OK to say "I will take the risk of getting the virus" and that you are only risking yourself. You aren't. Can you see past your own cabin fever to understand that?

[Anonymous]

3, 8, 10 yr olds here and it is hard. All go to private school which decided to not do distance learning and retrned tuition. I'm on my own to teach the big kids and come up with their curriculum. While I'm teaching them, the 3 yr old gets naked somewhere and finds an ink pen. It is tricky to meet all school needs with a 3 yr old plus the constant cooking and cleaning. But we do the best we can. School had better be a go in the fall.

[Anonymous]

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The other option is to not participate in all the activities. It’s not like you have high schoolers preparing to take online AP exams, like I have, and it’s safer than opening up before the state is ready just because you feel like you’re missing out...

This. I'm a teacher and these activities are to justify paying the teachers (and not giving parents a refund). Don't do them. It's not like they will have a final exam in art.

[Anonymous]

At this point I think It's ok to stop unless your kids are in higher grades.

Also OP... this is tougher because it isn't actually homeschooling. If it were you would decide the schedule and your kids would move at their own pace.

[Anonymous]

I bet that if you actually look closely there are more people doing nothing at all than there are doing elaborate projects, and there are probably only one or two people who are doing all of the “work” every single day.

Everyone I know IRL has their preschooler watching TV 4+ hours a day. I am sure there are outliers, but you can’t compare yourself to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they don't do the school work then they should have to repeat grade. You are the parent and it is your responsibility to ensure they do their classwork.

Oh please. Most kids were 2/3-3/4 of the way through their year. And everyone has been affected by this. You sound like one of those people who judges people whose houses aren't as clean post-pandemic as they were before. No one likes people like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3, 8, 10 yr olds here and it is hard. All go to private school which decided to not do distance learning and retrned tuition. I'm on my own to teach the big kids and come up with their curriculum. While I'm teaching them, the 3 yr old gets naked somewhere and finds an ink pen. It is tricky to meet all school needs with a 3 yr old plus the constant cooking and cleaning. But we do the best we can. School had better be a go in the fall.

WHAT?!? Which school is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have 3 kids - 1 in preschool and 2 in elementary. It is hard enough getting these older kids to get to their live classrooms and do their assignments. Our preschool doesn’t want to return our tuition so they also have live instruction and assignments and activities. It is such a pain to do. There are parents where their preschool child is their only child or they have an infant and a preschool child. They do all these elaborate art projects and activities. I feel like absolute crap. I’m on the brink of a nervous break.

I need the world to open back up. I cannot handle being stuck at home. I will take the risk of getting coronavirus.

"I will take the risk of getting coronavirus."

That's the problematic thinking. If you really could risk only yourself, fine. But if you get infected you can still infect others even if you have no symptoms. So you're OK with infecting your family, with your infected but asymptomatic kids infecting teachers and classmates, with you and your spouse infecting total strangers as you go back to stores and kids' activities and back to school events. If you're about to argue that you will avoid infection and practice distancing etc.--really? If you can't deal with being at home, are you truly going to maintain mask and glove and distancing protocols for months to come?

This is why we will have a second wave of infections. Because of the "I can't stand being home" people and the "I can't take dealing with homeschooling plus job" people. We get that you are frazzled and overwhelmed. Why do you not get that there is a much bigger picture beyond the walls of your house? Take control of what's inside your home. Drop the preschooling and ramp back the elementary to whatever works -- plenty of parents on these threads have done just that. But please don't think that it's OK to say "I will take the risk of getting the virus" and that you are only risking yourself. You aren't. Can you see past your own cabin fever to understand that?

Yes we all understand that. It’s that no one can predict how long this will go on, and governments aren’t doing enough to provide tests and other measures. There is talk of no in-person school in fall and it’s a serious disadvantage for all of our children. I think the frustration is that people expect others to do this indefinitely without a real plan.

[Anonymous]

Forget the preschooler’s stuff. Really boys not important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3, 8, 10 yr olds here and it is hard. All go to private school which decided to not do distance learning and retrned tuition. I'm on my own to teach the big kids and come up with their curriculum. While I'm teaching them, the 3 yr old gets naked somewhere and finds an ink pen. It is tricky to meet all school needs with a 3 yr old plus the constant cooking and cleaning. But we do the best we can. School had better be a go in the fall.

WHAT?!? Which school is that?

Not going to call them out, but I'd rather have our money back and just do our own thing- as hard as it is, I think I prefer this to all the scheduled zoom stuff.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Op I agree with you. That’s why I think people have to start putting real pressure on local governments to reopen.

No, the solution is for OP to opt out of the preschool activities.

You think that's going to solve OP's larger problem? Ha.

LIFE NEEDS TO RETURN TO NORMAL. Many of this cannot and will not take this much longer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have 3 kids - 1 in preschool and 2 in elementary. It is hard enough getting these older kids to get to their live classrooms and do their assignments. Our preschool doesn’t want to return our tuition so they also have live instruction and assignments and activities. It is such a pain to do. There are parents where their preschool child is their only child or they have an infant and a preschool child. They do all these elaborate art projects and activities. I feel like absolute crap. I’m on the brink of a nervous break.

I need the world to open back up. I cannot handle being stuck at home. I will take the risk of getting coronavirus.

"I will take the risk of getting coronavirus."

That's the problematic thinking. If you really could risk only yourself, fine. But if you get infected you can still infect others even if you have no symptoms. So you're OK with infecting your family, with your infected but asymptomatic kids infecting teachers and classmates, with you and your spouse infecting total strangers as you go back to stores and kids' activities and back to school events. If you're about to argue that you will avoid infection and practice distancing etc.--really? If you can't deal with being at home, are you truly going to maintain mask and glove and distancing protocols for months to come?

This is why we will have a second wave of infections. Because of the "I can't stand being home" people and the "I can't take dealing with homeschooling plus job" people. We get that you are frazzled and overwhelmed. Why do you not get that there is a much bigger picture beyond the walls of your house? Take control of what's inside your home. Drop the preschooling and ramp back the elementary to whatever works -- plenty of parents on these threads have done just that. But please don't think that it's OK to say "I will take the risk of getting the virus" and that you are only risking yourself. You aren't. Can you see past your own cabin fever to understand that?

Go away.

People like you are becoming the problem.

[Anonymous]

Skip whatever seems like it’s too much. Email the teacher about it. Focus on a couple of core topics and let the rest go. My kid hasn’t done any math in a couple of weeks but has been writing a ton. It’ll all balance out by the time it “counts.” Seriously, your goal here is to survive. Do a minimum if you can. Let them keep themselves buys as much as possible.

[Anonymous]

Parent of teens here. Why on earth would you have your preschooler doing Zoom lessons? They just want to keep charging you tuition for care you are not receiving. In fact, YOU are now stuck with even MORE work THEY are giving YOU as a result!

I would pull my child out of that daycare situation and fine another one (however long that takes) if it were my call. I would focus on the elementary students and have my preschooler read and practice some math problems here and there in a age-appropriate math workbook. No way I would put up with "live instruction" (give me a break!) for a kid under 5. What a racket.