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School tweets: I understand it does not seem safe to send kids back to school buildings right now. I'm not sure I want to send my kids back even if school opens (for two days a week, as is the current proposal here).
But at this point I would rather my kids not even try full-time remote learning this fall than have hours per day of zoom/asynchronous lessons at home.
I don't expect kids (especially little kids, especially with working parents) to keep up with the work. Particularly those of us with kids who need learning support at school -- so far there's no good way to transfer that to remote learning.
I know that a semester (and maybe longer!) is a lot of time for kids to miss out on formal, curriculum-based teaching by professional teachers, but the pressure of keeping kids focused on learning for hours a day in addition to working full time is... a lot.
We're exploring options -- hire help? Quit a job to focus on helping kids with school, or home school? -- and all of them come with problems of their own. We're fortunate that we can even consider some of these; many parents can't.
I just see a near future where everyone in my family (and, clearly, many others) is stretched beyond our limits and stressed because we're all falling short of expectations -- at school and at work.
I understand the epidemiological value of keeping kids out of the school building, but I'm afraid full-time remote learning is going to break us. /end
