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[quote=Anonymous]This distance learning thing is just not working. My ES child hated most things about school to begin with (except for her friends), and now all the joy is gone. She's anxious about meeting expectations of her classes, but needs so much more support than she is being provided. The school's not offering any one-on-one support, just telling us to sign up for office hours with teachers. The most important parts of her IEP can't be offered without more teacher support.

This week and last week it was days of tears, nagging, resistence, defiance, just to get her to do the assignments. Basically, a lot of behaviors that she can on occasion have related to homework but nothing this severe or this sustained. If we aren't having her try to do school work, all those behaviors go away and she's fine. In other words, it's not overall anxiety or depression, but clearly all situational and related to the new learning environment and the new expectations.

At this stage my child is asking to drop out of the distance learning plan and have us do projects with her at home (basically, to be homeschooled). Not only is that not possible for a variety of reasons, overall I think it's just a bad idea because we want her to continue to make academic progress and not fall farther behind.

But then I think: why not just pull her? So what if she misses two months of school? The way things are going she's not going to be making much academic progress anyway. And I'm concerned about her mental health if we keep pushing her to try to meet expectations in this new environment.

Anyone else having similar thoughts? Tell me why this is a bad idea...

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