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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a TON of remote cheating, much of it done by parents.  We were guilty of that.

My kid was trying to make it through honors pre-calc with two 45 minutes of Zoom instruction per week (but same tests as always).  The kids were basically left to self-teach the material.  So my husband started teaching our kid for hours each week and they did 
the homework and tests in tandem.  For us, it was more important that my kid learn the material (which wasn't being taught) then any ethics about the cheating.  The school sunk that ship when they decided not to teach.

I thought we were alone in this and then I talked to friends in the class and they were all doing the same thing.  I feel horrible for kids who did not have mom or dad instructing them for 10+ hours a week but the bottom line
was that I 1) wanted my kid to learn the math and 2) didn't want his/her grades to tank because the school was not providing any instruction. [/quote]

This was us except I never went past algebra 2 in HS and can’t help him. The school said there was no extra help available. The counselor said the only option was to retake the class he took the year prior and got an A in. So now he has a D and his life course is forever altered. [/quote]
I'm so sorry for your kid. We were faced with a similar decision: intervene and make sure our kid maintained good grades, or accept that the pandemic was going to trash the school transcript. Of course we intervened, from homework to tests. We didn't want our kid to suffer long term consequences from COVID-19.[/quote]

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