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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the “you just don’t want to parent your kids” posters are:

1) teachers who want to work from home longer....and look I get it, I’m a teacher. It was pretty nice working from home in the spring. I’m a private school teacher so I’m back now

2) hyper competitive mommies who a few years back were bragging on their EBF or sleep trained babies [/quote]

I actually have two students in an online private high school and I do not believe for a second that 2) is broadly realistic at all. I have been a learning coach for my two children for two years before the pandemic. I know well how this arrangement is not right for many families. I work from home, part time, and have the education and time to provide learning coach support to my children. They are also highly motivated, like DL, do activities outside of school that require some flexibility in their schedules, and this works for them, but it would not be right for every solid student. We also move for my DH's work every few years, so we like the consistency of keeping them at one school with a strong curriculum while we move from one city to another. It's a lifestyle and it's not a judgement that one student thrives in it and one does not. I would be the first person to say that it is not right for everyone.[/quote]

Not the PP, but I don't think the PP was talking about a parent who is supporting a student who opted for a private DL arrangement. There are plenty of reasons why DL might work for some students, especially for motivated students, including moves, physical or medical issues, extensive extra curricular activities, etc. You choose that option to fit a child's interests and lifestyle. In addition, you have opted in to being a learning coach and committed to provide that support.

DL as provided in public school is not giving families a choice. It tends to not work well for younger learners and older students lacking in intrinsic motivation. I've got one kid for who it works fine and another who struggles. It is more about the kid than the parent.

For anyone interested in the expectations for an online learning coach, I urge you to look at some examples, like the one below. These spell out the difference between being an involved parent and being a learning coach for an online learner. Public school DL uses a DL model without any choice for parents and without providing support for parents in their role as learning coach.  Perhaps if public schools had done a better job assisting parents in their roles as learning coaches or providing resources to obtain a third-party learning coach for those who need them, DL would be much more effective. If private online DL schools acknowledge that DL is not effective without a learning coach, why do we pretend that public DL would be?

[url]https://www.k12.com/parent-student-resources/succeed-with-online-learning/learning-coach.html[/url]
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