My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I

Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by pyzon on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:44PM (#24215298)

I can't help but feel that many of the dismissive comments here must be either from folks without kids, or from people that got lucky with a well-mannered child. You think those good manners were all your amazing parenting? You probably deserve some credit, but I think you also lucked out more than you realize. Haven't you seen parents with multiple kids and those kids have wildly different dispositions?

I urge you to have more empathy with parents and kids. Kids handling remote learning badly is such a pervasive complaint right now that it defies logic that all of these parents are bad parents.

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Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by codingdave on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:02PM (#24215551)

> Haven't you seen parents with multiple kids and those kids have wildly different dispositions?

Agreed - I have three kids. One is going to her school in-person. Another sits on the couch on his laptop for 4 straight hours until he gets his work done, and refuses to take a break. The last one works in 20-30 minutes sessions, doing screen time, then taking a break.

If I were to force any one of them to work like the others, it would go badly. Different people, different ways to work.

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Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by icelancer on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:45PM (#24216170)

Yep. There's variance. I have one kid who can crush online classes sporadically and do tons of heads-down work with minimal supervision and is just six years old.

The other one is almost ten and is on ADHD medication, has borderline personality disorder issues, and while very intelligent, has problems with authority and can't focus online very well.

There's a huge randomness factor that goes into everything, including having kids. It's not deterministic.

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Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by isabelc on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:54AM (#24220021)

Yes. Anyone with more than one child will know that the main thing we know about kids is that "no two are alike."

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Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by pm24601 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:39PM (#24218163)

I so agree. My youngest was proud when they came home with "red lights". The other child was devastated when the teacher looked at her cross-eyed.

The youngest one is very very indifferent to peer pressure. They don't give a sh!t what anyone else in their classroom thinks of them.

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Re:My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I by james_s_tayler on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:57PM (#24215476)

Ah... this. So much this.

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