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>1. Parents are now the primary enforcement mechanism for doing schoolwork, which is not a role they have necessarily been trained to do

Parents were always the primary enforcement mechanism for doing homework, what would the school do if a kid was getting all Fs because they didn't care? The most a school can do is force kids to be quiet, and even then if the kids refuse to be quiet the school can't punish them - a child that does not voluntarily submit to punishments like sitting and not talking can only be sent home.



There is a world of difference between just homework, and being essentially the teacher's proxy for the entire school day.

I didn't say homework, I said schoolwork, which is quite intentional since a teacher does a lot more than just assign homework.


Before, most of homework was done in afterschool club. Overall there was little of it and kids new exactly what to do.

Now we have to also explain and there is a lot of it. That is massive difference.


How do you plan to enforce this quiet time while holding down a job in another room, or conducting a video call, or trying to code something up while a 6 year old screams constantly?


How did you do it when they came home with eight hours of homework?


This may come as a shock to you, but I didn't have to be working a job at the same time.


they can be physical isolated at school...not that id know anything about it...changing subject...




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