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Here: 8-year old twins with very different interests, school system fully remote for at least first 8 weeks, they are in different classes (it is the best solution, although 2x work for us). I have the weirder schedule (consultant, flexible hours with unmovable deliverable commitments)and my husband has mornings available. 1. We chose to keep them in public school, remote. 2 We chose to keep their nanny for an extra year to help with school (she has a psych degree and education experience) 3. We've set them up on the dinning room table, and 30 minutes into it realized we'll need to split them physically and get headphones with mics(no solution yet for physical separation) We have loved: teachers who are technically adept. Suggestions:
Can you get a mobile wifi take one kid out at a time to do school outside? (This assume you are also in an area you can be outside in a safe way, between COVID and heat) Can you and your partner talk to your companies and change your work hours? Are your employers on board with "this is not working from home, this is being at home during a pandemic, attempting to work"? Have you found a way to prioritize some personal time daily/weekly so you two do not burn out to a crisp? What we hate: the complete disruption. We are not great at teaching our kids, not because of lousy skill (we both taught college), but lousy patience teaching a young age group. We have done a lot of "learning on the go" this summer--for example: taking kids into a river, talking about currents, water sources, why stones in rivers are round, ecosystems, etc. Or playing with Gravitrax to explore gravity, friction, the topography of our 100 yr old house's living room (and why /how construction settles). But it is hard and it is not "curricular & organized" We are also in a socioeconomic group that can afford a nanny, and have professions that have allowed for flexibility. We have had it "easy". There is no way to overstate the sheer hellish hell of choices this all can be, and YMMV with anything I wrote here. |