Good and bad: Families speak up about their online learning experience with Wake County
While some parents are pleasantly surprised with the structure and hands-on activities teachers have scheduled for remote learning classrooms, other parents are concerned it'll still be a huge struggle that ends with their kids losing out on a higher quality education.
Posted — Updated“Obviously in the beginning we were kind of in the same place everybody seems to be right now: Little knowledge. Nobody seems to know what’s going to happen,” said Bullock, whose daughter is in the Wake County Public School System.
She works from home and hasn’t really needed to step in to help her daughter. Teachers have all the students’ work ready to go.
“I don’t have to micro-manage her because the teachers are on it," she said.
There's a lot of guidance from the teachers, who keep the students on track during transitions between online classes.
"She’s still getting the same quality education,” said Bullock.
Her daughter's schedule provides a sample school schedule:
- Two 75-minute classes
- 70 minute lunch
- Followed by two more 75-minute classes
- Day ends at 2:10 p.m.
Bullock said the teachers allow time for lectures, but also provide for students to interact and work together in groups.
Some families are struggling
While some families have already started their learning, others, like Jocelyn Thomas with four children, said they have still has not received their kids’ schedules – and school starts in a few days.
"I just don't know how it's going to work," said Thomas.
Thomas has four children, each in different grade levels. She is struggling to imagine how she will juggle the different technical online needs and supervision of each child in each grade level in her home.
Thomas said her children’s remote learning during spring semester was not the best experience, and she’s hoping this fall is not a repeat.
She hopes to see more structure this fall. She'd like to see teachers remain available to take questions while kids work on assignments. Otherwise, she's concerned she will have to manage juggling four kids with four grade levels, helping them with their assignments without the teacher's assistance.
She's worried her kids might lose out on a higher quality education.
any issues with sound, video, or any technical problems, overall, Bullock said teachers know what to do and how to help students navigate through those issues.
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