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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School is boring enough for most MS and HS students as it is. In-person there are more stimuli and fewer choices. Plus there is peer pressure and teacher-pressure to tune in. So much harder at home, so much harder alone. [/quote]

Why are they alone? Don't most parents make their kids go to school? How is this any different?[/quote]

They are alone because their parents are...wait for it...working. The entire point is that parents cannot be home schooling, they have jobs.[/quote]

I mean, they are alone because they are distance learning individually in their homes. Is that difficult to understand? Teens are pack animals. Just being in a group setting makes things easier for many of them.

We are choosing DL for our teens, but I don't think it's easy at all. And sadly I think that the attempts to basically replicate IP learning at home via the internet does a lot to expose the flaws in the system without leveraging the opportunities posed by DL. That will come, in due time. But in the meantime, it's going to be very challenging for all of us.

And, hey, if DL is easy for you and your family, then great! That is a good thing and I'm genuinely glad that a good option is open to you. [/quote]

My kids are participating in pack activities online for hours a day. They're playing on line games with groups of other kids. How is this different?[/quote]

Because it’s voluntary screen usage, whereas DL is not. Kids tune out. Parents aren’t used to monitoring screen usage because it functions as an entertainer/babysitter.[/quote]

Kids tune out in the classroom.  Kids tune out during DL. Kids tune out.[/quote]

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