Does anyone else hate Google Slides assignments?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It could be worse... Your child's teachers could just be referring your kid to the awful and dumbed down FCPS packet, which has the same stuff in it week after week with only slight tweaks (what's different in the picture below? What doesn't belong? Array chart etc). That's what most of my child's assignments are.

Agree -- the google slides my child gets appear to be prepared by the county -- it is the same "see/think/wonder" and other similar repetitive stuff and some of the slides reference FCPS curriculum on the cover page. It is basically spring packet style work just on slides instead of on paper. I now assume their work has always been like the spring packets even before covid, I was just blissfully ignorant before.

[Anonymous]

One year later, google slides school still sucks. What an embarrassment. My kids have a lot of the FCPS canned slides (ugh! Our principal asked in a parent meeting if we had any “wondering”? Wtf and cringe.)

[Anonymous]

Google slides were the worst part of at home learning. No other issues held a candle to the frustration they inflicted. My kid who is usually calm would be screaming in tears when he did hard work and had trouble submitting. Sometimes moving all those tiny numbers and shapes in the box that is already half the screen took forever. He would submit and it would not go in because he took so long. Things got a little easier and he learned how to copy/paste over completely restart when something got deleted. He has been at school and hasn't mentioned them again so I think he got better at it but physical worksheets would be way less stressful. You can't say its saving paper if the schools have loads of unused workbooks.

[Anonymous]

I feel like my kid lost an entire year of writing/math instruction because Google slides is useless. Asking children to do math without using paper is a travesty.

[Anonymous]

You all would’ve complained if they had asked everyone to come pick up paper packets too.

[Anonymous]

My child now thinks she is supposed to do all math in her head thanks to the Google slides. She is complete offended when told she needs to write down her steps.

[Anonymous]

The OP is from May 2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The OP is from May 2020.

And yet, the google slide sh!tshow has continued this entire school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Google slides were the worst part of at home learning. No other issues held a candle to the frustration they inflicted. My kid who is usually calm would be screaming in tears when he did hard work and had trouble submitting. Sometimes moving all those tiny numbers and shapes in the box that is already half the screen took forever. He would submit and it would not go in because he took so long. Things got a little easier and he learned how to copy/paste over completely restart when something got deleted. He has been at school and hasn't mentioned them again so I think he got better at it but physical worksheets would be way less stressful. You can't say its saving paper if the schools have loads of unused workbooks.

I this thread is a year old, but just chiming in to agree with this statement wholeheartedly. Google slides were a nightmare for my second grader. If you or your colleagues get totally frustrated working with PowerPoint, imagine 7 year olds. Grabbing and moving objects? Inserting text into a teeny tiny text box? Accidentally deleting an object or no idea how to copy or insert one??

Yep....first and second graders trying to figure THAT out and totally frustrated they can’t complete the work when they know it. I am not sure what level of computer use will carry forward for second graders and younger next year, but hope Google slides are abandoned!

[Anonymous]

The amount of time our ADHD child wasted looking for cool images to put into his Google slide decks was one of the reasons we quit public for homeschooling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The OP is from May 2020.

And yet, the google slide sh!tshow has continued this entire school year.

+1

A year later and we are still using google slides and it still sucks.