Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
People saying there's plenty of time to catch up - who are we expecting them to catch up with?

I've got 2 kids in state school and my girlfriend has a kid roughly the same age in private school.

My eldest gets a reasonable amount of work each day, maybe 3-4 hours and the teachers are online for a few hours each day. There are no repercussions from the school if they don't do the work (there are from me!)

My youngest gets about 3-4 hours of work set per week and his teacher seems to spend about an hour a day actually doing stuff (while still picking up full salary presumably).

In both of their classes I think about 50% of the class regularly attend as an absolute maximum, probably considerably less, and there's a good 25% who have never attended since lockdown began.

My gf's kid is between their ages, has probably 5-6 hours of work a day and the teachers online most of the day, with 100% attendance, it still isn't as good as being there, but at least they are making a decent effort of keeping up with education.

There is no way that the 25% of kids in my kids classes who haven't had any education for months are going to catch up with kids in better schools
Not reading all that as I'm in work and it's raining... But what I said was my sister wasn't too worried about her 5 year old and does little bits but not excessive work as she's confident he will catch up. He's bloody 5 of course he will.