I can share that I went through a 4 month spell as the “got nothing better to do” patriarch Grandpa during the first lock down and had to go and bounce from household to household to keep the family up and going and employed so that hey did not lose their homes.
I was dealing with online instruction from their schools through “Google classroom” And it was totally dysfunctional. Spent many hours on the phone with their teachers showing them screenshots of what the kids were getting on their end compared to what they “thought” the kids were getting.
11 Grandkids, from high school to preschool...
Even the teachers themselves could not believe what was spitting out at the other end to the kids compared o what they had “assigned”. Fortunately we are a very Conservative county and municipality. So they did not argue and agreed with the evidence I presented.
Trust me... It is a mess. Make them do it hard copy...
OK. I see the problem.
You were doing online instruction provided by their own public schools.
No wonder it was such a mess.
There are other online curricula that are not public school disasters.
People should go with some other curriculum provider for homeschooling kids. Do NOT depend on public school directed or provided online material.
I have heard that a lot, the problem was they tried to just translate the classroom setting to online. It doesn’t work. What it did do was open a lot of parent’s eyes to the agenda tho. One of my friends told me that it made her realize how much time is wasted during the school day. The actual school work is probably no more than 2-3 hours.
There were plenty of online academies that have been doing it for decades and worked out the issues and kinks long ago. It’s too bad the public school didn’t do some research at least to see what works. Most are text based with supplemental videos.