I could go on for hours about the issues. I have a really hard time with the fact we have kids on computers before we teach them to type, how counter productive! Grrr..I have tried the "school homeschooling " option but my kid can not learn that way. It takes a kid with a lot of self control to be able to do that. With no actual instructor his grades went from A'S to F'S, he tests off the charts on standardized tests so they say he is learning fine. He is not he is learning to take tests.Private schools and county schools have no help for behavioral/mental health.He became so depressed when he had to home school and then his Dad got Cancer, his one escape from life, school, was taken from him.He also has a big IQ ,OCD/Anxiety/ ADHD so me teaching him is difficult, I also suffer from chronic pain so I struggle to help him most days. The mental health association doesn't even have enough help for these kids. Mine was on the verge of suicide at 11 and their answer was take him to a psychiatric ward,(we did not we watched him closely , I was not going to add that harm to him)the psychiatrists were backed up 3 months and still are. I am going to let them finish the year in the masks( even though the governor just dropped the mask order, school is keeping them) and weigh my options for next year, I know he needs the social aspect of school for sure.Until then I will continue to make them hate me for limiting screen time! Lol!
I could go on for hours about the issues. I have a really hard time with the fact we have kids on computers before we teach them to type, how counter productive! Grrr..I have tried the "school homeschooling " option but my kid can not learn that way. It takes a kid with a lot of self control to be able to do that. With no actual instructor his grades went from A'S to F'S, he tests off the charts on standardized tests so they say he is learning fine. He is not he is learning to take tests.Private schools and county schools have no help for behavioral/mental health.He became so depressed when he had to home school and then his Dad got Cancer, his one escape from life, school, was taken from him.He also has a big IQ ,OCD/Anxiety/ ADHD so me teaching him is difficult, I also suffer from chronic pain so I struggle to help him most days. The mental health association doesn't even have enough help for these kids. Mine was on the verge of suicide at 11 and their answer was take him to a psychiatric ward,(we did not we watched him closely , I was not going to add that harm to him)the psychiatrists were backed up 3 months and still are. I am going to let them finish the year in the masks( even though the governor just dropped the mask order, school is keeping them) and weigh my options for next year, I know he needs the social aspect of school for sure.Until then I will continue to make them hate me for limiting screen time! Lol!