Our kids (5th and 7th graders) are getting a lot more than their friends it seems. My 5th grader gets around 20 hours a week and my 7th grader is getting around 25 hours a week. Personally I’m happy. The schools here adjusted very quickly and have been very good at keeping up a good schedule. Of course the good school system is why we moved here but I’m still impressed. Both kids still have classes every day via zoom and are still getting real lessons.

But their friends from where we moved and all of their cousins from various parts of the country aren’t getting much at all. My 8th grade niece is only getting an hour of two a week and my friends kids from where we used to live are getting 10-15 at most.

I was just wondering what everyone else was seeing.

My daughter is in kindgarten so peobablynnot super relevant but we get a zip file every weekend with printout activities for the week and she has 2 zoom classes a week.

We're responsible for everything else.

The kids are both in high school at a private school with a homeschooling component for the younger grades. By HS, it is three days a week, mostly on a college model (one hour in class you should expect two hours homework), no homeschooling, they figure it out on their own. The County schools announced their shutdown on a Friday afternoon and the kids announced Friday night that they were following suit, taking Monday to hammer things out, and starting classes online on Tuesday. They went to a few classes a day five days a week so the kids weren’t staring at screen all day on three days. They’re probably doing somewhere between 80 & 90% of the work they were. No complaints.

Our oldest is in 1st grade so still a ways away from the more in-depth work but she seems to be getting about 8-10 hours/week all summed up. Two WebEx meetings per week.

Some days are better than others but my second grader is getting about 10-15 hours of work a week and my fourth grader is getting about 15-20 hours of work a week. It’s been a heck of a challenge adjusting to the online learning.

Fighting with the programs to work takes up a ridiculous amount of time. We have resorted to just answering my daughters assignments on paper and sending her teacher pics of her work. That has saved us countless ours of blood boiling frustration.

Overall though I have to say I am VERY impressed with how our school system has handled all of this. I found one of my favorite books as a child (The Education of Little Tree) and started reading to my son as well as having him read and occasionally answer questions. I’ve also given both my son and daughter fun educational assignments to take full advantage of this unique opportunity. My son helped me design and build a trellis for our squash and zucchini to climb up and my daughter researched what Canada geese eat and we fed the goose who decided to nest in our yard. Her eggs hatched today and three fuzzy little heads were sticking up out of her nest this morning. Daddy goose was especially protective too and let us know it was time to keep our distance.

My daughter goes to a private school, and they adapted fairly quickly to how to continue to deliver their product. My daughter is a freshman, and her daily workload is ending up somewhere in the 5 hour range. Sometimes hard to tell because she is a master at stretching a one hour job into a two hour ordeal.

Tomminator is in 5th grade, and the teachers said that none of the stuff they send will be graded...he spends less than two hours online each day doing his assignments. To include one of them reading to the kids and them answering questions...they are not learning.

Texas initially cancelled their STAR (annual) testing. And then she sent the email about none of it will count. Last week they told us that school is out until next year.

Teachers sent emails saying that they (the kids) have to continue classes until the last day or they will fail. And they are just giving a go/no go for the spring semester.

Honestly his black belt testing we got emails to us is more difficult, as he has to write another essay about why and how and what he’s done to become a second don(2nd black belt)

My kids seem very busy. I almost wonder if they're intentionally trying to give them normalcy through distraction. I'm thankful to have the luxury of a stay at home mom.

My oldest is in 7th grade. He gets about 4 hours worth of work a day. One class has a video conference most days. The other classes have a variety of methods that seem to work. Overall I’m impressed with what they have done.

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Originally posted by r0gue:
My kids seem very busy. I almost wonder if they're intentionally trying to give them normalcy through distraction. I'm thankful to have the luxury of a stay at home mom.

mirrors my situation

HS age kids are very in tune with school through AP classes / web connectivity

i told them it was a precursor to college-style 'self-directed learning'...

they are straight A students so pretty driven to achieve

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Are you talking face to face virtual time only or all work including homework?

For a 5 day week on a 8-3 schedule with a couple throwaway hours for lunch, transition and elective that’s only 25 hours with in-person model so it sounds about right?

If that’s total instruction plus homework sounds like corners are being cut.

Kids are more productive, albeit they are older. (high school and college)

My oldest says she can now condense 8-10 hours of weekly lectures into 90 minutes of work.

Both of them have maintained their GPA and picked up 10+ more hours per week with their employers.

1st grader here, so no ridiculous work load. We meet twice a week via google meets, just for 1/2 hr or so. So probably 8 hours of actual book work, but we throw in some cooking for math, outdoor gym, science/nature studies, etc. You get the drift.
They send an electronic packet, and they have a physical packet that we just picked up the first time this week (for the same reason another poster mentioned- we use an iPad, and they rx a chrome something or other? Some of the capability doesn’t seem to translate, and I’m done fucking around with it. Nothing has or will be graded, so we do what moves him that day (or, if nothing moves him, I choose ) I try to vary subject material each day, but reading is mandatory daily. Hard to do when you’re trying to work from home, too, but it is what it is, and I flex my hours to what needs to be done, and set it aside if it can wait.
Sometimes he balks, sometimes he’s agreeable, but the number of things I saw him bring home half finished when he was in a classroom tells me I shouldn’t push - because they clearly weren’t, and in conferences his teach said he was doing great. In checking with his teach now, she still thinks he’s doing great, so, we’ll keep on trucking like this. I think she’s doing her very best, and trying to make sure none of us worry about it too much..

My 9th grader has mostly AP classes, so she's ridiculously busy. About 6-7 hrs of work/day.

My 6th grader, not so much. He puts in about 4 hours/day of work.

Fridays are supposed to be for study and classwork isn't supposed to be assigned. Apparently the 9th grade teachers didn't get the message.

My daughter is in Kindergarten and they keep us pretty busy.

Younger Son is pre-k so zilch. Older Son in 1st grade, his workload at home seems less than what he is likely getting a school.