Schedule - full day!?!?

[Anonymous]

We got sour elementary schedule; 8:30-3:15!!! How are parents supposed to work and support the kids? I was hoping it would be a structured half day and less structured other half to make this challenging situation a little easier.....

[Anonymous]

The schedule builds in movement breaks, lunch, etc. I always anticipated that it was supposed to approximate the school day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got sour elementary schedule; 8:30-3:15!!! How are parents supposed to work and support the kids? I was hoping it would be a structured half day and less structured other half to make this challenging situation a little easier.....

You are not - the kids are supposed to learn to be independent and take responsibility for their learning.
I am helping facilitate distance learning. I am setting alarms, setting up a space for them, book marking sites with saved passwords.
I will make lunch and snack and pack it in their lunchbox like I did when they were in person.

[Anonymous]

OP, what grade? I agree that older elementary kids should be able to handle much of this on their own but I know our 1st grader won't be able to make transitions between activities without our active involvement.

[Anonymous]

Headphones for your kid and for you? You can keep an eye on them but don’t need to listen and take your own phone calls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got sour elementary schedule; 8:30-3:15!!! How are parents supposed to work and support the kids? I was hoping it would be a structured half day and less structured other half to make this challenging situation a little easier.....

You are not - the kids are supposed to learn to be independent and take responsibility for their learning.
I am helping facilitate distance learning. I am setting alarms, setting up a space for them, book marking sites with saved passwords.
I will make lunch and snack and pack it in their lunchbox like I did when they were in person.

This is so sad.
The one time in life when you’ll actually be able to be active in your child’s education & you are showing them off.
I’m always unclear what jobs the DCUM types have where they are actively in meetings or calls all day...
I’m married to a lawyer & was a consultant myself, & now run my own business. Still can’t relate to the on all day jobs of this crew. Guess you all are all just big deals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got sour elementary schedule; 8:30-3:15!!! How are parents supposed to work and support the kids? I was hoping it would be a structured half day and less structured other half to make this challenging situation a little easier.....

You are not - the kids are supposed to learn to be independent and take responsibility for their learning.
I am helping facilitate distance learning. I am setting alarms, setting up a space for them, book marking sites with saved passwords.
I will make lunch and snack and pack it in their lunchbox like I did when they were in person.

This is so sad.
The one time in life when you’ll actually be able to be active in your child’s education & you are showing them off.
I’m always unclear what jobs the DCUM types have where they are actively in meetings or calls all day...
I’m married to a lawyer & was a consultant myself, & now run my own business. Still can’t relate to the on all day jobs of this crew. Guess you all are all just big deals.

?

Some of us have core hours. Which just happen to be during the school day. Which makes it impossible to both do your job and be available to direct the education of a young elementary student. While I’m not actively in calls or meetings all day, I am expected this o be available during my work hours when my manager calls me. Blowing him off so I can log my 6 year old into yet another distance learning session is not acceptable. Plus, I’m actually expected to produce a work product. When the distance school day is all day long with 5-10 minute breaks plus a lunch period, it looks like I would need to facilitate logging into sessions every 15-45 minutes throughout the day. I don’t generally work in 15-45 minute increments, but maybe you do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got sour elementary schedule; 8:30-3:15!!! How are parents supposed to work and support the kids? I was hoping it would be a structured half day and less structured other half to make this challenging situation a little easier.....

You are not - the kids are supposed to learn to be independent and take responsibility for their learning.
I am helping facilitate distance learning. I am setting alarms, setting up a space for them, book marking sites with saved passwords.
I will make lunch and snack and pack it in their lunchbox like I did when they were in person.

This is so sad.
The one time in life when you’ll actually be able to be active in your child’s education & you are showing them off.
I’m always unclear what jobs the DCUM types have where they are actively in meetings or calls all day...
I’m married to a lawyer & was a consultant myself, & now run my own business. Still can’t relate to the on all day jobs of this crew. Guess you all are all just big deals.

“all day jobs”? are you joking?

my job is flexible, but not flexible enough that I can be interrupted 5x/day to make sure my kid logs on to the computer.

[Anonymous]

In the same boat OP. I’m going to make sure my DS (8) logs in in the morning for attendence, and the rest is up to him and the school. I’ll probably get some kind of alarm too.

[Anonymous]

Some people clearly have make work jobs where you produce nothing and their main task is to keep the grift rolling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got sour elementary schedule; 8:30-3:15!!! How are parents supposed to work and support the kids? I was hoping it would be a structured half day and less structured other half to make this challenging situation a little easier.....

You are not - the kids are supposed to learn to be independent and take responsibility for their learning.
I am helping facilitate distance learning. I am setting alarms, setting up a space for them, book marking sites with saved passwords.
I will make lunch and snack and pack it in their lunchbox like I did when they were in person.

This is so sad.
The one time in life when you’ll actually be able to be active in your child’s education & you are showing them off.
I’m always unclear what jobs the DCUM types have where they are actively in meetings or calls all day...
I’m married to a lawyer & was a consultant myself, & now run my own business. Still can’t relate to the on all day jobs of this crew. Guess you all are all just big deals.

“all day jobs”? are you joking?

my job is flexible, but not flexible enough that I can be interrupted 5x/day to make sure my kid logs on to the computer.

Haha I am a teacher so I have core work hours and an “all day job” I guess? That’s a new phrase for me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got sour elementary schedule; 8:30-3:15!!! How are parents supposed to work and support the kids? I was hoping it would be a structured half day and less structured other half to make this challenging situation a little easier.....

You are not - the kids are supposed to learn to be independent and take responsibility for their learning.
I am helping facilitate distance learning. I am setting alarms, setting up a space for them, book marking sites with saved passwords.
I will make lunch and snack and pack it in their lunchbox like I did when they were in person.

Well my kid isn’t like yours and is not disciplined enough for this. This schedule plus us working is just going to make them fall further behind..,,,

[Anonymous]

How is having your kid occupied all day a problem? If done by noon, then you have a whole lot more supervision to provide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got sour elementary schedule; 8:30-3:15!!! How are parents supposed to work and support the kids? I was hoping it would be a structured half day and less structured other half to make this challenging situation a little easier.....

You are not - the kids are supposed to learn to be independent and take responsibility for their learning.
I am helping facilitate distance learning. I am setting alarms, setting up a space for them, book marking sites with saved passwords.
I will make lunch and snack and pack it in their lunchbox like I did when they were in person.

This is so sad.
The one time in life when you’ll actually be able to be active in your child’s education & you are showing them off.
I’m always unclear what jobs the DCUM types have where they are actively in meetings or calls all day...
I’m married to a lawyer & was a consultant myself, & now run my own business. Still can’t relate to the on all day jobs of this crew. Guess you all are all just big deals.

So I guess you'll be fine with it when your child's teacher has to leave in the middle of a teaching session to help his/her child with his LD learning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is having your kid occupied all day a problem? If done by noon, then you have a whole lot more supervision to provide.

But more flexibility. My kid was lonely this spring and I'm not sure how we're going to avoid that most days, but he could play legos, watch tv, etc., with no time urgency if I was on a call.