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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, I don't trust many parents' assessments of how their children are "thriving" in DL.[/quote]

Why not? Doe the first time have a front row seat and can see everything they are doing and how they’re reacting to it. [/quote]

Because I don't think a lot of parents are very good at impartially assessing the academic progress of their kids, and we already know a lot of parents don't assess the emotional and mental health of their children well. [/quote]

But then they aren’t really doing any worse now than they would be doing in general right? [/quote]

No, it's very different. In non-DL, there are many more external and more impartial measurements going on, both formal and informal. There is a wider community that provides essentially continuous feedback, and that's largely not happening now. If you talk with teachers honestly (without flaming them or calling them lazy or other stupid insults), they'll often open up about how they don't have a lot of faith in formal assessments going on, and informal non-parental assessment has largely disappeared. The fact is, in DL the wide variety of inputs a thoughtful parent might get about their children is severely diminished.

Have you ever read any homeschool survivor forums? I have, and the "my kid is thriving!" posters sound remarkably like the parents of those kids. The kids themselves, particularly as adults, often have wildly different and typically more accurate assessments of their own educational progress, because they have to live with the results as adults.

I am sure there are some kids who are actually thriving, but I don't trust the assessment of most parents as to that point. [/quote]

Well haven’t you seen a lot of adults who went to public school and said they weren’t thriving and their parents didn’t know it?

My kids’ teachers have been in touch with me and we have discussed the areas where my kids are doing well and what they are doing poorly, and we have brainstormed ideas for improvement and now things are much better. They are getting high scores on standardized tests and since I watch them most days I can hear how well they are doing on the material. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, but I know. Last year I had no idea they were doing poorly in some areas until quarantine started. In fact one of the silver linings of distance learning is that I actually know where they are struggling and how to help them. Plus I know as well as I did in years past how they are doing emotionally and socially. In fact I know that better now because I see how the kids are interacting with other kids, whereas I had no idea what was going on on the playground.

I’m not feeling defensive or anything but I just don’t think your view is in line with my experience. [/quote]

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