My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone

Re:My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her... by lordnacho on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:43PM (#25142196)

I see some light in this new situation though. My kid has had to remote into his classroom during the March lockdown, and again recently. It seems to work just fine. The teacher can still check on his progress, but when he's at home there's no commute and he can spend his free time as he likes. Meals can also be taken in front of the screen. Slow at eating lunch? Keep eating.

At the same time, he has an actual school that he can go back to next week, and he can catch up with friends again.

This sort of flexible schooling could be the thing for the future.

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Re:My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her... by StillBored on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:40PM (#25143524)

Except my child is doing the school from home, and it seems that just translates to even more homework. Sure she frequently procrastinates, but having a teacher send "don't panic, here are 4 hours of homework due tomorrow" has literally put her in the situation of sitting on her computer from 8PM till 2AM a number of times now. Plus she is burning ~8 hours on the weekend with homework too.

So, I guess that is the price of being in a top tier highschool taking AP classes. When I was in a similar situation I probably only spent on average an hour a day on homework.

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