This takes time, often way more than it should. Students are regularly required to participate, as syllabi often have a minimum number and quality of posts. For example, classroom discussions are extremely difficult to do well via Zoom, so instructors often move them into online discussion forums. Without that, teachers find themselves forced to move it into activities that become homework, and both teachers and students radically underestimate the amount of time it take to do these things. In a face-to-face teaching environment, there’s room for a lot of activities happen in the classroom moment. I'd like to suggest that it's probably more complex than teachers simply piling on more homework. Some may in fact be doing this, but I think it’s also a byproduct of the move to online instruction. My child is not yet in high school, so I'm not seeing this at home, but I do teach at the university level and have seen some similar things, both within my own classroom and as reported by my students about other people's classrooms. Would love to hear from others about their experiences. Has anyone else noticed this tendency to overcompensate for remote learning by assigning additional (or, in our case, excessive) homework? If so, how are you dealing with it? We are at about our breaking point, unfortunately, and it's not even February. Aside from the fact that it is not a teacher's job "to keep kids busy," as I said, it's gotten to the point that she is regularly up way after midnight doing work and it is taking a very bad toll on her, mentally and physically. I am particularly frustrated because one of her teachers even explicitly said, "I have to keep you kids busy" while assigning work. It is not an issue with the difficulty of her classes - she understands and keeps up easily with the material. She is getting burned out quickly, to the point where, although she had adapted to the online platform, she is getting ready to "check out" of he classes entirely. I can't remember the last time my daughter has gotten more than 6 hours of sleep because she is being overloaded with homework (Note: she is in all "regular" classes - no honors or APs for which one might expect a more substantial workload). Since around December, we have noticed a substantial increase in homework, At first, we attributed this to the normal end of semester rush to finish first semester topics, but since returning in January and even now after semester finals, it has only gotten worse. Although it got off to a rocky start, I have generally been pleased with with the amount and level of instruction since the fall and my daughter had been doing quite well with things until recently. Hello! My daughter attends Albany High and, like everyone else around here, we've been in remote learning since March. Thank you very much in advance for any advice. She is taking her classes the same way as everyone else since elementary school. Are all classes engaging? Or do you need to be in an AP class to be engaged? Are teachers engaging/caring with all students or do they only engage with top of the class students? Is the student body receptive to new students out of the district?Īlso, my daughter, despite her ADHD condition, has never qualified for IEP or 504 plans due to her good grades. However, other than math, I feel she is not really learning that much.Ĭan any parent in AHS let me know their experience there with kids that are "different". Currently, at her public middle school, my daughter is an all A student. I am thinking my daughter will probably just take the "normal" classes in AHS, not many AP or honor classes due to her ADHD. We are also looking into some private schools but we don't know if she will be accepted.įrom reading old posts it seems AHS is a mostly an academic focused school. We live in El Cerrito and we are considering moving to Albany this coming summer 2023 just for the high school. I have a daughter with ADHD and social anxiety.
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