I urge you to have more empathy with parents and kids. Kids handling remote learning badly is such a pervasive complaint right now that it defies logic that all of these parents are bad parents.
I urge you to have more empathy with parents and kids. Kids handling remote learning badly is such a pervasive complaint right now that it defies logic that all of these parents are bad parents.
Agreed - I have three kids. One is going to her school in-person. Another sits on the couch on his laptop for 4 straight hours until he gets his work done, and refuses to take a break. The last one works in 20-30 minutes sessions, doing screen time, then taking a break.
If I were to force any one of them to work like the others, it would go badly. Different people, different ways to work.
The other one is almost ten and is on ADHD medication, has borderline personality disorder issues, and while very intelligent, has problems with authority and can't focus online very well.
There's a huge randomness factor that goes into everything, including having kids. It's not deterministic.
The youngest one is very very indifferent to peer pressure. They don't give a sh!t what anyone else in their classroom thinks of them.