{"id":6545,"date":"2020-10-20T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.neighbor.com\/storage-blog\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:33:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T00:33:23","slug":"remote-learning-isnt-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neighbor.com\/storage-blog\/remote-learning-isnt-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Parents Say Remote Learning Isn\u2019t Working For Their Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Maria G., a mom of two elementary school kids, lives in New York, the U.S. city most battered by the coronavirus. She understands why her kids’ school remained closed this fall. But that doesn’t mean remote learning is going well for her family.<\/p>\n

“It’s impossible,” she said. “I work full time from home and have two children doing remote learning all week. As I suspect it is in most homes, kids turn to mom for everything — including help with school. I feel like I’m always 10 steps behind.”<\/p>\n

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Maria said she wouldn’t be comfortable having her kids back in the classroom (as parents of students moving to college<\/u><\/a> might feel, too), but she doesn’t know how to solve some of the challenges that come with remote learning, either.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think I can solve a problem administrators are clearly trying very hard to solve,” she added. “There’s just no good solution here.”<\/p>\n

In the U.S., some school districts are attempting to reopen amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic<\/u><\/a>. But it’s impossible to even track how many students are attending in-person classes versus learning remotely from home, because those decisions are made by local districts and they change frequently as schools and districts that <\/u><\/a>reopened<\/u><\/a> close down<\/u><\/a> — temporarily or indefinitely — after experiencing their own outbreaks.<\/p>\n

Amid all the uncertainty, many districts across the country made the difficult decision to stick with remote learning this year. And as we all face an unprecedented situation in which kids are attending school online and it’s largely up to their parents to guide them through it, we wondered: How’s it going so far?<\/p>\n

So we surveyed American parents whose kids are learning remotely, hoping to learn more about the challenges both kids and parents face in this challenging new world.<\/p>\n

Survey: Most Parents Say Remote Learning Isn’t Working for Their Kids<\/h2>\n

From our survey results, we were able to see that most parents and their kids are facing significant challenges that have come with remote learning. Here are some of the things we learned:<\/p>\n