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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents need to learn how to parent. Maybe start living in joint families. [/quote]

How dare you? I know how to parent. And if someone would pay me $100,000 a year to teach my child that would be one thing, but I am being expected to do that for free. I have a job. I cannot do it and also a second, unpaid job that I am not being paid for and that forces me to work an additional 8 hours for free. FIX DISTANCE LEARNING and take responsibility for your students.[/quote]

So, I can come through zoom and wake your child up? I can give your child breakfast so that they can focus? I can take the legos, stuffed animals, and video games away from him so he can actually focus on learning? I can give him a quiet background so that he can learn? I can sit with him for 4 hours to review all that he/she refused to get during instructional time? I can do his assignments for him? I can prep him for tests since he missed a lot of assignments? I cannot do ANY of these things. I can provide instruction, encourage, mentor, and have additional zoom time within reason to help him/her but I cannot do all of the above. That is the parent's job. [/quote]

No, I do all of those things (the ones that need to be done: most of them, apart from breakfast and quiet, he doesn’t need). What YOU can do is understand that I am now working two jobs, my own and yours, and that the latter I am not paid for. You spend one hour a day with my child and four other kids onscreen. Yet you assign 4 hours a day of work that my child cannot access on his own, so I have to access it for him. You provide a jumble of assignments so disorganized that it is impossible for me, let alone my child, to keep track of what has and hasn’t been completed. You make no attempt to check that my child understands what he is being taught, and leave it up to me to teach it when it becomes clear that he doesn’t. You place the entire responsibility for learning on me and my child, and take no responsibility or interest in your own part of the equation. If he’s not learning, that’s our problem. You can understand that we are in the middle of a lethal pandemic and at the very least acknowledge that, and accept that if work is not turned in on time that may have something to do with it. Your school could provide supervised online time for students to join and do their independent work with an adult present who can answer their questions, technological and educational, and make sure they complete their assignments to the best of their abilities. Instead of taking it for granted that “the parents will do it.”[/quote]

This is exactly how I felt in the spring. Now things are actually fine. MCPS.[/quote]

Ha. PP here. Upper NW DCPS.[/quote]

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