On Friday the 13th (March 13th), the world changed as we knew it.
My son came home from middle school thinking he’d spend the next two weeks at home because of the district-wide shutdown.
Two weeks turned into almost three months.
In that time, my sixth-grade son and I worked through his assignments. We read. We discussed. We learned.
Click here to be redirected to Motherwell Magazine to read my recently published essay, “7 Unexpected Things I Taught My Kid During Homeschooling.”
Our family’s world changed on Friday, the 13th. March 13th, when the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced that all schools would close for two weeks due to the spread of the COVID-19.
My son was supposed to return to school on Monday, March 30th.
Since then, LAUSD has amended its original plan and called for all schools to remain closed until May 1st. But even that date is tentative. Rumors are swirling that our children will not return to a classroom for the remainder of this school year.
In the meanwhile, teachers scramble to put together lesson plans and instructional programs that children can access online. Which means parents are now being called upon to serve in the roles previously held by the schoolteacher – taskmaster, cheerleader, supervisor, tutor, coach.
Now, many parents are taking to social media, claiming “that being with their child day-after-day helping them with assignments is giving them a taste of what it’s like to be a teacher.
“And to those parents, I want to say, ‘No it’s not.’ “
Those words begin a personal essay I wrote and that was published last week at Motherwell Magazine. You can click here to read the essay in its entirety.
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