Question to parents of kids doing DL

[Anonymous]

If you took away all of the supplemental enrichment activities and tutors you have for your kids and only looked at the DL your child is getting, do you think DL is as good as regular school pre Covid?

[Anonymous]

And if it's not as good, how much worse is DL?

[Anonymous]

For my high school kid, its just as good or almost as good academically but he is an independent learner. I'm sure its not the same for younger kids.

Also of course not as good socially - the kids are just missing the social interaction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you took away all of the supplemental enrichment activities and tutors you have for your kids and only looked at the DL your child is getting, do you think DL is as good as regular school pre Covid?

DL is completely useless for my special ed preschooler. As a kid, I would have loved DL though.

[Anonymous]

In ES in person we always supplemented with workbooks. We did a summer class for math prep for this year as we get 2 hours live and very limited assignments in MS. DL for is better as this years teachers are better than the ones we had in person.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not.

[Anonymous]

I’m not doing any academic enrichment or tutoring. It could be, but DS isn’t that motivated and wasn’t that motivated when he was in school either. He does the bare minimum in any setting. This is giving him a lot more flexibility to work in interests, hobbies and sports outside of school. We find that a more practical use of his time. He’d likely be getting Cs in person too. This is middle school.

[Anonymous]

Not as good. Fine academically but it’s killing their love of learning and they aren’t learning social skills and they aren’t manipulating things with their hands as much.

[Anonymous]

Ha. No.

Academically I don’t think it’s a ton worse though. My kids are still learning a lot.

[Anonymous]

No

It’s not as good as in person for my 3rd and 6th grader but at least they know how to read etc.
I send my kindergartner to a K class at a daycare and if she had to do online K unsupervised while I worked I don’t think she would learn much of anything.

[Anonymous]

5th grader, one teacher absolutely. Missing a few things but getting the education. Math and writing teacher is appalling, but apparently she isn’t great in person either.

Overall it has been a decent year, but I credit DC for a lot of it. Yes, having the resources to supplement has mattered as well.

[Anonymous]

I thought at first DL tons different, but now think same as relates to content (not social) and so for us, we did start supplementing this year and will continue even after kids go back. DL definitely gave us a view into how our kiddo best learns that we should have had, but did not have before- they are happier now.

[Anonymous]

We don't supplement, but ours is a high school senior who has already been accepted into her first choice college. So with all of that in mind, for her, it's about 25% worse. The teachers are cramming in a lot of info and she needs time to process the information. Sometimes she doesn't know what she doesn't know until Monday. She reaches out or attends office hours, but the time it takes to get from "still learning" to "understanding" is longer.

[Anonymous]

No way. It is BAD. The kids are so disconnected and sad. Hate, hate, loathe entirely. Very grinchy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you took away all of the supplemental enrichment activities and tutors you have for your kids and only looked at the DL your child is getting, do you think DL is as good as regular school pre Covid?

Of course not. They're not learning how to problem solve in a group, how to share materials, how to do a project without adult involvement etc.