I had a hard time keeping my kids focused on academics for the last three months of last school year. I bought enrichment workbooks, while their dad said you have to do that or work on merit badges. They’ve racked up more than 30 merit badges between them in six months, everything that could be done at home or nearly alone.
He considers it educational to have watched historic movies and taken financial literacy courses to earn badges, but they’re behind on math and science because online isn’t good enough.
I agree, math and science are the most difficult to handle online. There’s no teacher to walk around the room and make sure equations are set up correctly... And don’t even get me started on virtual “science labs”.
My sister teaches college chemistry. She said the American Chemical Society is demanding virtual lab courses have a special code on transcripts. Students with too many will be labeled “deficient” for future credentials.