Serious question - are the kids who "love DL" all introverted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I asked my students what they missed most and least about normal school . Most: friends. That’s like... it. Maybe a few said things like pep rally and football games. What they miss Least: seeing teachers, being in class with people they don’t like, group work, classes they don’t like, school lunch, the chairs, the long days, the school security officer, having to ask to go to the bathroom, the lack of freedom. It was realllllly eye opening. I mean, we all know this is true for most to some degree. School on the whole is a not wholly pleasant experience. But when you ask them what do you MISS... they miss very little beyond their friends and getting out of the house every day.

NP, parent of a senior boy who chose to continue with DL. I don't think he's an extreme introvert but possibly needs some alone time to recharge. He has a lot of friends and loves spending time with them. School has never been a very pleasant experience for him, since late elementary school, and it's mostly, I think, for the reasons PP heard from their students. DS misses being able to talk to his teachers before and after class but loves the flexibility of doing school from home. Sees his friends outdoors once or twice a week and meets them online in between. And although he's got ADHD and struggled in middle school and early high school, he's doing fine with schoolwork this year, much to my surprise and relief. He's not overwhelmed with classwork or homework, even though he's in a couple of AP classes. If school were going back to in-person as we knew it, I'm pretty sure he'd want to go back--he was ready to go back, in fact, until he watched the video APS put out just before the December choice deadline. At the time, it wasn't clear--to us anyway--that most teachers would be in the classroom, and the prospect of sitting in a common area without a teacher, doing online learning from school and monitored by someone else, seemed a bit too much like juvenile detention. Now that we know most teachers will be in the classroom with concurrent instruction, I'm concerned the DL option will be much harder for students and teachers alike. I don't know if DS will regret his decision but if he does, I really hope he'll have a chance to get back in the classroom with his peers before the end of the year.

[Anonymous]

Extrovert and is special education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most kids I know who like it have adhd, a love of the free time for video games, or are introverted.

Haha! ADHD, love of video games and loves unstructured recess.