freddymercurystwin wrote:Well that was a turn-up, school portal for online parents evenings was down, result! There was an email exchange with one of his teachers who said there were plenty of kids doing even less, how is that even possible? |
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freddymercurystwin 2,825 posts
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Nexus_6 6,168 posts
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Registered 17 years ago2 of my favourite things are aligning this week one CBeebies - space and Maddie.
There are some good quizzes and things on the website and special shows all week on the channel. Great for younger kids of course. And their dads. -
challenge_hanukkah 14,394 posts
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Registered 8 years agoSocial workers have been round to my lovely neighbours threatening fines because their kids haven't been logging into online sessions at home.
Colour me shocked. -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIf I’ve learned anything lately it’s that people who choose to home school normally are indeed sickos -
nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoWe have had tears this morning. Her form tutor got in touch asking why shes not doing homework and ignoring live lessons for a select few teachers.
Turns out, in slight mitigation, her work randomly comes in on Teams, Outlook and Satchel One depending on the teacher and which way the wind is blowing. She has been accidentally "forgetting" to open outlook in the morning and thus ignoring a full third of the work she is being set.
White girl tears, gadgets bans, work calendars and a stern 'why isnt this all coming in on one source? These are kids, not secretaries' later and we have a plan to get back on track.
Dont take your eyes off the quiet ones. They are the worst. -
oldskooldeano 3,496 posts
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Registered 18 years agoJust had a very similar situation. The school produced an engagement report which shockingly showed that my daughter had not been doing any work for about 50% of her subjects. Incidentally the ones she is not keen on. She also had not been logging into her tutor groups.
She doesn’t live with me or things would have been different. However after some harsh words, some tears, a gadget ban, and a plan to improve. Emails to her tutor, we are moving forward.
Her Mother said ‘homeschooling is so hard! I should say she has been signed off work on long term sick since about September, so it’s not as if she doesn’t have the time to monitor what our daughter is doing!
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fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoChrist, it was bad enough at school, these poor kids having to do this crap at home, half assed.
My mother used to drill us about NOT believing the 'school days are the best days of your life', partly because she had a bad time at high school but also because she knew it was misty eyed loser bullshit.
When we were older and had a tiny bit of critical thinking and ability for reading nuance she also told us that it was important to not take school as seriously as the serious teachers tried to seriously do, and that whatever we thought was super important now, would become irrelevant in a scant few years and to not overly worry. But also, paradoxically, to try hard to succeed.
I try and remind my sister (an occasional Karen to her kids) of this -
nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI absolutely loved school. They probably were the best days of my life which, conversely, is why I feel so bad for her. These cunts are going to end up robbing her of more or less an entire school year. -
fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoYou misty eyed loser.
Mine were fine. Not the best, certainly not the worst. But I do wonder if my experience would be different if mother was a Karen -
nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI was just smart enough to get away with doing nothing but not smart enough to realise that was not a good idea and tall enough that nobody messed with me.
It was just a straight line of world class dossing about from 11-21.
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paulboy81 517 posts
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Registered 13 years agoMy son's live lessons are a shit show. Both his teachers are beyond computer illiterate, still struggling with presenting a powerpoint through Google Classrom after 3 weeks of trying.
One of them decided to fall back on the traditional whiteboard in front of the camera method for one lesson, except she'd written all of the work backwards assuming the webcam would flip the image like a mirror.
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nudistpete 1,273 posts
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Registered 4 years agopaulboy81 wrote:
WTF? Although I've seen that in MS teams at work where people have flipped their comedy backgrounds not realising that the little window showing you your face is flipped so it looks like a mirror.
she'd written all of the work backwards assuming the webcam would flip the image like a mirror. -
PazJohnMitch 17,276 posts
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Registered 14 years agonudistpete wrote:
Also spotted this.
paulboy81 wrote:
WTF? Although I've seen that in MS teams at work where people have flipped their comedy backgrounds not realising that the little window showing you your face is flipped so it looks like a mirror.
she'd written all of the work backwards assuming the webcam would flip the image like a mirror. -
Dirt3 1,775 posts
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Registered 7 years agopaulboy81 wrote:
.siht ekil liame na reh dneS
My son's live lessons are a shit show. Both his teachers are beyond computer illiterate, still struggling with presenting a powerpoint through Google Classrom after 3 weeks of trying.
One of them decided to fall back on the traditional whiteboard in front of the camera method for one lesson, except she'd written all of the work backwards assuming the webcam would flip the image like a mirror.
Gave me and the wife a good chuckle at least. -
Nexus_6 6,168 posts
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Registered 17 years agoIt's not really acceptable in this day to be so hopeless with technology.
It is a basic part of being able to do the job. Oh I'm a truck driver but these new fangled diesel trucks really confuse me and I can't seem to get them going so I will just struggle along getting someone to tow my truck but I'm still good to do the job of a truck driver. -
GuiltySpark 6,790 posts
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Registered 17 years agoTeaching on zoom/teams IS difficult. It's not as simple as "the lesson is on a personal screen rather than a shared monitor in class". You have to account for students knowing how to submit work, how to maintain engagement, how to know that the student's listening, and more importantly, to check if the student is understanding. What are they writing on? If they're doing it through a phone then they need pen and paper, and that's another explanation about how to submit that. Can they see everything properly if they're on a phone? Little Timmy can't hear but everyone else can, but how do you know that's even the case? The PowerPoint hasn't changed, so your explanation made no sense because everyone was looking at the wrong slide.
It's completely alien, and it's a fucking nightmare. Luckily, we dabbled in Teams earlier in the year, but it was extremely confusing at first. -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoChrist, thankfully our primary haven't been anywhere near as overzealous. Both mine have been doing most of their work, but not all. English and maths are covered but the other stuff may or may not get done. The boy threw a wobbly the other day as he'd been set (practically) the same art lesson 3 weeks in a row. I had some sympathy with him tbh. -
mothercruncher 19,474 posts
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Registered 15 years agoIt’s very hit and miss here too, and fairly frustrating some days. Everything is delivered- and handed in- by Teams. But, aside from one Microsoft product, inexplicably and seemingly at random, being unable to open another Microsoft product file, the actual content is all over the place. Images placed in documents but off to the side and with a third missing, text hidden behind images so you have to twat about to reveal it, internal content just missing so that I have to download files and faff around opening externally and then re-uploading, but, best of all, tasks that require stuff to be filled in but are just one huge graphic so I need to print the bloody thing out, we work on it and then I email a photograph of the print.
Amongst, the other shite like not necessarily wanting to have this sort slightly hectoring relationship with my daughter, it just doesn’t play to the strengths of a delivery and management product- there’s a frustrating layer of clunkiness on top of everything that doesn’t need to be there. They had training apparently, I can’t imagine what it would have been like if they hadn’t. -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAll ours is through Google classroom, which is fine to a point, but as you say, loads needs printing out and photographing to submit. PITA. I did get to mess about with Trinket though, which I thought was great for kids. -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoSeesaw here, loads of printing and photographing. It’s not to bad, the girls are usually able to be coaxed into it, most parents on the chat are apparently struggling more so I feel like we’re generally doing ok. The two factions are those that just don’t give a fuck about what the child does as “the school will have to get them up to speed when back in class” or the ones demanding 6 hours of online classes to keep their little angels occupied while mummy drinks a box of wine and bitches on whatsapp -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYeah, doing ok here's too. 3.5 days are covered by one of us and the rest of the time we make sure maths and English as a minimum are done. Anything else is a bonus. -
Not-a-reviewer 7,686 posts
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Registered 7 years agoOurs is reception so the main challenge is keeping her busy. It would have been ok but my work has decided I have to do 60 hours of work in a 37 hour week and my wife is doing finance year end. If nurseries shut as well then I’ve no idea how to manage that at the moment.
I’d be alright but constant meetings that I cannot have someone else in the room at the same time for (security reasons) is a pain.
Her actual learning she has to do fills about 30 minutes a day at the most but she’s definitely doing better with it at home one on one even from that.
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hedben2013 2,261 posts
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Registered 9 years agoNot-a-reviewer wrote:
Hard agree with this for my 5yo. We get 4 or 5 tasks per day that take about 10 minutes each, but she's well on top of phonics and her writing's improved massively compared to before lockdown. One on one makes such a difference.
Her actual learning she has to do fills about 30 minutes a day at the most but she’s definitely doing better with it at home one on one even from that.
Meanwhile the middle child is still doing the absolute bare minimum, and I caught the oldest today playing Mariokart on Switch during her MS Teams maths lesson... but both seem to be doing adequately according to their teachers. So fine I guess??
(Footnote- the reason I caught the 13yo on the Switch is I was looking for it because I wanted to get some time on Breath of the Wild during a particularly boring zoom meeting... so I absolutely have no leg to stand on) -
bzzct 2,518 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAt this point I'd take the printing and photographing, and even the wonky screenshots distorted into Word, if they could just put vaguely relevant filenames on the attachments rather than add fifteen different uncategorised pdfs, powerpoints and videos to one big post covering four different subjects.
"Watch the phonics video below and..."
"THERE ARE EIGHT VIDEOS, ALL OF WHICH ARE JUST NAMED BY A TIMESTAMP AND IN UNNECESSARILY MASSIVE FILES THAT STRUGGLE TO LOAD." -
Knighty 1,326 posts
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Registered 16 years agoOh god lord this. During first lockdown when my kids were learning from home, the school started putting their files into random folders with random file names you could access.
What made it even better was the actual work would be uploaded at some point Monday afternoon, so I ended up spending Monday morning looking at an email with the work list on my phone trying to decide WTF I was doing wrong, or where I was supposed to be looking. And half the time I swear the videos were never uploaded at all.
Ended up buying a load of workbooks etc through Amazon and setting a double page of maths, spellings etc. Then doing the random crap challenges the school set (and had no interest in marking) in the afternoon. -
hedben2013 2,261 posts
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Registered 9 years agoNot to mention getting links to Teams meetings in a format you can't open them on, and delivered via a parent messaging app to a device you don't want to use for your kids' assembly anyway -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agohedben2013 wrote:
Haha, love this.
(Footnote- the reason I caught the 13yo on the Switch is I was looking for it because I wanted to get some time on Breath of the Wild during a particularly boring zoom meeting... so I absolutely have no leg to stand on) -
freddymercurystwin 2,825 posts
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Registered 17 years agoWell a bit of a turnaround today, my eldest's form tutor rang this morning (he's in 1st year of secondary school) to discuss why he'd done so little work/barely logged into any online lessons etc, I was on an important work call at the time so she left a message, but then I put together a pleading email about his complete lack of focus and our personal circumstances and it turns out as I am my wife's registered Carer and that he's registered as a 'Young Carer' it makes him eligible for a school place, which they've agreed to so he's starting on Monday full time, it's such a relief it's been really been tearing us apart. -
mothercruncher 19,474 posts
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Registered 15 years agoThat’s a result. Had a somewhat pointed email this week from our headteacher mentioning the high numbers of kids in and dancing around the fact that some parents are taking the piss.
You’re clearly not an edge case though, hope that takes the pressure off -
We had that email a few weeks ago, which is what made us rethink. Then you've got my wife's school accepting someone as the parents are finding it tough (an ex-teacher at that). Welcome to the club! So frustrating.
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