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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][quote]mine prefers to stay home DL because they are snacks he can eat, jumping around at time, watch youtube videos at off time, wake up later, school end earlier etc.... Working parents do not have time for him, so he entertains himself with a lot of videos and TV every day. And, we used to put him at before care & after care school.

It is really unhealthy[/quote]

God bless you for being honest. The things my kids like about distance learning are not necessarily great for them in the long run. (The snacks! My god, the snacks!)[/quote]

Yes, NP, mine are exactly the same way, down to the jumping, snacks and way too many "funny animals" videos on Youtube. (1st and 3rd.) Sure, in a manner of speaking, they're "thriving."  But they haven't learned sh#t.  And their SEL skills have bottomed out. And that's with a much-loved college-age babysitter keeping them on task, parents making them turn in all class/homework, AND a (1x week) tutor.  So sure, they "prefer" it, but is it hardly educational, and 90% of what they've learned is not from MCPS, but from reading such esteemed classics as Bad Kitty, Dog Man and Diary of a Wimpy Kid (/s) and Dad drilling them on multiplication tables at dinner.

We'll be going back March 15. [/quote]

You want them to read other things?  Give them to them.  Read them too and discuss them.

I don't get the [i]learned helplessness[/i] of so many parents here.  One woman (you could practically hear the melodramatic tears in her typing) a while back said they need to open school buildings because her kids (oh, the horror!) ARE WATCHING TV WHEN THEY SHOULDN'T BE?  Oh, if only there were solutions for these earth-shaking first world problems?

Pathetic.[/quote]

This is the exact phrase I was looking for when I was posting in another thread. It's quite pathetic, especially coming from people who claim they are so smart, went to an ivy and make six figure incomes at super important jobs.

And it's literally every ranting post. And most of those rants, whining, issues, or problems can be solved with just 10 seconds of using their brains for problem-solving versus complaining.

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