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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids get tech help too. From their teachers and their school tech coordinator, both of whom were incredibly responsive at both my kids' schools. You all really don't seem to look for the solutions.  We had plenty of issues but were able to work through them.  And my kids are better for it.  My 8th grader has learned terrific trouble shooting skills and patience.  And 90% of his assignments were just fine. My 6th grader managed well too. Maybe they both got lucky, but I think that most kids did just fine.  Maybe not elementary. wouldn't try to speak to that![/quote]

I can’t WFH.  My MS and ES kids were largely unsupervised during school hours, something I made painstakingly clear at several points throughout the year to various teachers and principals.  My previously straight-A “gifted” MS kid has often been failing half the classes, often due to missing work and other times due to poor teaching in this format.

Sometimes our internet went out.  Sometimes another kid kicked one of my kids out of Teams. Sometimes one of my kids had a question but the teacher didn’t allow time for them to ask or didn’t acknowledge their “raised hand” on Teams.  Honestly, there are so many issues I don’t even know where to start, but as an adult (native English speaker with an advanced degree) I found Canvas a nightmare to navigate.  Was it my role to “look for the solutions”?  What might the solution have been?  I tried over and over and over this year and it would have been such a relief if APS wanted to work with us to find solutions instead of creating more problems.  It took me 6 months to get a simple weekly checklist of what my ES kid was expected to do, and we often did this work at the end of my workday at 7-8pm because the teachers really couldn’t be bothered to give any extra assistance.

I would say my kids are resilient and this has certainly taught them a lot.  Sadly, one lesson has been that there are a lot of adult authority figures in their lives who aren’t interested in helping them. [/quote]

I am so sorry for what you had to go through. This should never have happened. APS should be capable of better and had advance planning time (last spring) and failed to use it. Let's see if they can get the ship back on track this fall, but they don't get a pass on the disaster of the last year.[/quote]

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