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The thought that someone is having an even harder time dealing with quarantine is rather brutal, yet pretty soothing. I mean, we are all on the same boat, trying to survive the pandemic storm in the ocean where the horizon is visible, yet it somehow keeps getting away from us.
And parents with kids who’ve been distance learning on and off for the past… what feels like an eternity now, have really had enough. While the US districts are now weighing whether to reopen schools (and only 4 states have ordered reopening, so far), for many moms and dads, having their homes turned into schools is not going anywhere.
Luckily, the memes, aka the internet's fave support system, about struggling and red-eyed parents in times of a historic disruption of education are in, and they’ll either make you feel better about yourself, or trigger your inner empath. In both scenarios, they should crack you up.
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Young Minami Kotaro 4 years ago (edited)
More upvote for this please... coz this is THE TRUTH!! 😅
ComfyPanda 4 years ago
Omg I heard a kid in my second graders zoom class the other day flat out interrupt the teacher just to say that he could speak whale. I died. But yes. I can totally relate to this meme.
Claire Elizabeth 4 years ago
hahaha i've had to teach my little brother half of his math lessons so far...
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WholesomeArmyweeb 4 years ago
Iz my bizness Keep ya noze outta mah bizness
Load More Replies... BananaAnna 4 years ago
Fire drills are good for exercise, deep breaths, forgetting what you were struggling to learn.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
Fire drills are always better than Bear on the loose drills. At my son's elementary school Bear on the Loose drill translates to Active shooter drill in grown up language.
Jill Ferguson 4 years ago
And always have the fire drill on the coldest days of the year. Always.
For many parents around the world, balancing parenting, household chores, personal life, and work under one roof is a serious and daunting task. And with on-and-off quarantines, many households are being pushed to the brink of insanity. After all, there’s a limit to how much we all can take.
So Bored Panda reached out to Martin Whitehead, the director of communications at Homeschool Association of California, who agreed to share some insights into how exactly families are dealing with lives in lockdown.
Turns out, that the situation is not one-sided. Incredibly, while most parents feel an enormous weight on their shoulders with homeschooling their kids, they nevertheless see education from home as beneficial. Martin commented on the matter: “I hear that many parents are stressed, but many are also favorably viewing educating their children at home.”
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Catlady6000 4 years ago
And happy. Although that Amy be the dementia. Lucky Sue
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Lexi Mitchell 4 years ago
Homeschooling, or being there while their kid is learning from a teacher via zoom? Because a lot of people are acting like they’re homeschooling when the teacher is still doing 99% of the teaching.
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In fact, there are so many variables that decide on how parents are feeling about finding themselves and their kids in times of pandemic. “It really depends, I think, upon whether the parents still work, and if that work is in or out of the home, whether there are one or two parents, income level, resources available, etc.”
Martin said that essentially, we are not only dealing with a scary disease, “but also economic and societal upheaval at a level we’ve never experienced, and then parents are also responsible for educating their children. That’s stressful.”
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kjorn 4 years ago
i always said that teachers pays need to be double or triple. don't forget they are forming the adults of tomorrow.
justanotherBoredpanda 4 years ago
My mom teaches post high school and I've always felt that she shouldn't have to work extra jobs in order to provide for me and my brother with all she does for the kids she teaches.
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Laura Mende 4 years ago
In my country (Germany) the proposal was made to force teachers to teach on weekends and in holiday too. That's because too much schooltime was missed and teachers are overpaid as well. 😒🤔 Government said, they should WORK for their money. As if teachers only sit around and swipe on tinder while classes... WTF is wrong with Germany???
Gary h 4 years ago
I've said that teachers are underpaid forever, but on the other hand... Our current education system allows teachers to simple copy-paste everything they teach our kids, and pressing CTRL+C is really not worth 40-60k a year if you ask me. Maybe if we forced educators to actually know their own lessons I could see this being a much bigger issue. But not until the use of sparknotes by educators is outlawed.
Eva Bryson 4 years ago
To me, teachers are paid just fine. I don't have kids, yet I pay for schools through taxes.
Hendra Lim 4 years ago
yep, i know how hard it is to teach children just by having my 5 years old niece in my house for 3 days straight
BananaAnna 4 years ago
Always knew teachers were brave, devoted, underpaid, underappreciated humans. They are also mentally stronger than most parents.
Xylle Flora 4 years ago
Teachers are sooo underpaid and undervalued. And they have it worse than parents-they have like thirty children to teach.
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Arlo Danielson 4 years ago
Eh, my mom just has some grapefruit juice and some ice when she is done with work. Sometimes she mixes in some kind of booze, idk what.
Sista of the moon 4 years ago
Ya, my mom has like club soda and some sort of grapefruit-ey booze
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Iris Engler 4 years ago
Of course. With some luck your child will discover its talent and makes it as job one day. Nothing bad in having a barkeeper in the family lol
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Edgar Rops 4 years ago
My mother in law is a nuclear physicist. She tried to teach maths and science to my 9 year old. It was a tragedy
C.S. E. 4 years ago
I can see that - the further you move from the basics, the harder it is to pull that information out again. You know the information, but now it's second nature and buried within that physics stuff.
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Anna Banana 4 years ago
It's funny how we insist on all that education for teachers, and then pandemic hits and the governments are like: what do you mean you can't teach your kid every single subject AND work from home full time?! I don't even want kids and I'm still frustrated on behalf of all the parents. And the kids, I don't even want to think how the Covid Generation will turn out...
Xylle Flora 4 years ago
You mean gen Alpha? Thank god I'm not one of them
Load More Replies... Nikki Owens 4 years ago
If someone went to school & learned 4th grade math & science but can't teach it to their own kid, what does that say about the worth of our schools?
BananaAnna 4 years ago
I have forgotten a great deal that I learned in school. Would teaching short people possibly help me remember?
Sista of the moon 4 years ago
Well my parents don’t try. We just use google and Wikipedia during tests.
Parenting in lockdown is not the same as it used to be. Thus, Martin suggests starting from lowering expectations and doing school when it’s convenient for your family. “That may be evenings or weekends, etc. Both parents should make a concerted effort to be involved so the responsibility is not only on the woman in the family,” he commented.
He also suggested seeing this time as an “opportunity to spend unstructured time with your kids, and let go of rigid expectations of what this should look like.”
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Gary h 4 years ago
A grown man tried to tell me alligators and crocodiles are the same exact animal. This was an adult I'm talking about. It's already too late.
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WholesomeArmyweeb 4 years ago
Teachers: I don’t care what your momma said. She isn’t here!! Kid: so you don’t care that she said you’re a lazy ass c*** who is a quack of a teacher who should have stayed in college cause clearly you can’t teach? Teacher: …
Tammy Bennett 4 years ago
I said that in high school in my Spanish 3 class. My mom was raised speaking Spanish and I would sometimes learn something differently than she did.
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Xylle Flora 4 years ago
Schools don't teach you how to properly solve linear equations and such. They say "oh, process of elimination" where if you just transposed you could save so much paper and could do it so much quicker.
EQXL 4 years ago
Math isn't math anymore...I once was asked to help my niece with some easy middle school stuff while I was in university. She freaked out, my sister in law explained they do it different now, I freaked out....they turned into a guessing game.....
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
The way they do it now (new math) seems so complicated compared to old math. Unnecessary complicated.
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Boopie Dew 4 years ago
I took a math class a few yrs ago to help my son finish high school. Most miserable thing in the world, i still can't wrap my moron head around that crap.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
There are two ways for solving 10 + 10. The old way and the new way. We who learned how to solve 10 + 10 old way try to teach our kids math using that only to be interrupted by that's not how you do it. Then you try to learn new way which is overly complicated process. That process in itself is the problem not getting the answer for 10 + 10. Which is 10100 anyways.
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Noel Botz 4 years ago
that would be 1980 times... sounds about right to me!!
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CurlyCucumber 4 years ago
Mine also wants to pee,drink juice and is hungry every time we start to do something
Dill 4 years ago
Distraction techniques. They can't use them in class and are enjoying the power.
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Hailey Scullen-Miller 4 years ago (edited)
her face just screams "GET OVER HERE I NEED YOU I MISSED YOU" angrily
Martin also believes that parents shouldn’t try to recreate school at home.“Involve the kids in taking care of the chores, meals, etc. Learning doesn’t only happen at a desk, and too many kids head off to college not knowing how to make a meal or their bed.”
This time is excellent for teaching them these precise skills. “This is an unprecedented situation and it calls for new ways of dealing with it,” Martin added.
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Caroline 4 years ago
Yep, our own children are always little angels for other people, yet they're little devils with us.
Ashley Dopp 4 years ago
i think the point was that when the teachers try to talk to parents about their kids behavior they're often told that their kids don't behave like that at home so its something the teacher is doing to cause it
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
So... teachers are not just incompetent, evil liars? I don't want to believe it, it sounds way too unrealistic.
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Sista of the moon 4 years ago
Lol she tttooootttttaaaaaalllllllyyyyyyyyy killed her husband 😂😂
Maya Jones 4 years ago
Carol Baskin K***** her husband whackked him Can't convince me that it didn't happen fed him to tigers they snackinn whats happenin CAROL BASKIN
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
So you watched an entertainment series and believe what's totally convenient for the weird-haired fraudster, who needs you to look away from the omnishambles he's created? I guess that's how you voted in 2016 & 2020. Make Tiger Inbreeding Great Again!
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로희 4 years ago
I just finished graduate school and have been helping my aunt homeschool her daughter. I swear elementary school subjects are more difficult than my graduate study.
Xylle Flora 4 years ago
If I was homeschooled then I'd probably learn so much more than I could ever in school. For one, my dad is an absolute genius when it comes to math and science. My mom is also amazing at ELA and history. She even taught me about poems and made me memorize a lot of them. It paid off.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
They will never underestimate the pressure and workload which students have to bear again.
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Reminds me of my maths teacher in primary school, when we asked why would we ever need to know something abstract she was currently trying to teach us. Her reply: basically so you can help your kids with homework when they're learning this in 30 years.
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Tiredpossum 4 years ago
this is why I never ask my parents for help with math all they're going to teach me is how to be traumatized
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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
If Jimmy has 5 apples, and the train leaves Denver at 5:05pm, how many fish would you need to catch to bake a lemon meringue pie? Show your work.
Aileen 4 years ago
Extra credit: Sketch a graph of the relationship of apples to lemon meringue pies.
Load More Replies... WholesomeArmyweeb 4 years ago
If you have five apples and your friend takes two, how many apples do you have Kid: five. Apples Teacher: if you have FIVE APPLES and your friend, BY FORCE takes two, how many apples do you have? Kid: five apples and a corpse :3
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago
My son did fractions be few weeks ago. My only example was pizza.
Martin recommends that all parents “involve their children in the running of the household in terms of chores according to age and ability and deemphasizing academics, especially if they’re being given uninspiring worksheets or are doing rote assignments with little meaning or relevance.”
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Albino 4 years ago
I am a teacher. But I can't draw at all. I teach geography so I sometimes have to draw, either contries (they work best for whatever reason) or things like glaciers and atmospheric inversion (both work better if we go through them part by part instead of just plastering an online picture on the board) and my students love how I draw worse than they do.
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Henry Cheves 4 years ago
But the student will have seen the way the teacher worked it out, even if they didn't understand.
Lynn Morello 4 years ago
I heard my son tell his brother, 'You're a fu#$ing idiot, you know that, don't you? He got that word from his teacher.
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Lynn Morello 4 years ago
My kids hated me helping with homework. I love Maths and don't understand why anyone would hate it.
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I've seen that happen in middle school many times. In honors classes.
Sista of the moon 4 years ago
Ya that’s because in middle school we’re too tired to say anything. And they know embarrassment all too well. But mostly i need more sleep
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Camila PerezDuran 4 years ago
once in the middle of zoom class my teacher said "Camila! I heard it was a big day today!" it was my birthday and I'm pretty sure my best friend told her just to embarrass me because the teacher then proceeded to project the zoom meeting to the class and spotlight me while she told everyone to sing for me. more than half the class asked who Camila was and only four people actually sang
Layla Corman 4 years ago
Friday, I overheard the teacher ask (after an intense 4th grade, fraction lesson), "Do you have any questions?" There were exactly 2 lesson related questions when the 3rd kid asked, "Do you like my hair today?".
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lisa lahey 4 years ago
that's what we (teachers) do all the time then we quickly change the subject....welcome to teaching
“Not just homeschoolers, but teachers, are saying that families, for the sake of family harmony, surviving during a pandemic, and coping with the stress of the moment, should do what they need to do to get through their days and manage everyone’s stress as needed by adjusting expectations and being realistic about what can be accomplished during any given day,” the director of communications at Homeschool Association of California concluded.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
There is something which is even worse, harder, more exhausting, more depressing than teaching it... being the one who is supposed to learn.
PhoebeBird 4 years ago
Gary it’s because the way we do math in school now is completely different from the way our parents did it and the instructions are confusing and the websites are confusing and everything is confusing
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The 5-star rated 5-star rating system 4 years ago
It's Aughra from "The Dark Crystal".
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IntrepidFraidyCat 4 years ago
Yup! But even going through Clever you still have to login again on the STEMscopes site. Uuuuugh
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BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
Is that an ikea chair in the other room? If so, so much respect for Lin!
Kay blue 4 years ago
Those chairs are awesome no matter how much money you have!
Load More Replies... Eliza Schuyler 4 years ago
Now time for English, we are learning poetry ....”My name if Phillip, I am a poet and I wrote this poem just to show it, and I just turn nine, you can write rhymes but you can’t write mine!”
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Boopie Dew 4 years ago
Yes! They're learning independence- quietly! Take the win and the moments of peace.🤫
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BlackLabOwner 4 years ago
lock everyone outside or say the internet is down and see if their friends will take them
Lynn Morello 4 years ago
On a rainy day during the school holidays and the kids were super bored, the electricity was out, I gave them each a book and asked them to read out 2 pages each. We spent 4 hours listening to them ready their stories and they did well. AND they enjoyed it.
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BlackLabOwner 4 years ago
me after waking up at 630 or earlier i am ready by 700 and my classes don't start until 805
Lorelai Purvis 4 years ago
my mom wakes us up at 7:00 am but my classes don't start til 9 so i just wait for a couple of hrs
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago (edited)
7am? How lucky! Our family estate is in a rural area, it has always been 6am for me, so check your privileges (can one use "family estate" and "check your privileges" in the same sentence?)
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago
Arrested development! Awesome show until Netflix took over.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
No, it is just a veiled criticism about the fact that all teachers do everything in a different way while assuming their one is the only right way.
Melissa Hudson 4 years ago
They are required to teach it a certain way for standardized tests thanks to "No Child Left Behind."
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Ivo H 4 years ago
Pizza and beer? In restaurant? I would homeschool the s**t out of anyone for this! (considering there would be no covid anymore ofc)
Wes Nishi 4 years ago
Or maybe they used an old photo to photoshop for the joke?
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Swyft 4 years ago
just making sure I don't get in trouble with your teachers if you ever go back
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Sista of the moon 4 years ago
My mom’s best one is “ill throw away your hot rollers!” She knows those things are near and dear to my heart.
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PineappleQueen 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, parents work all day so we do our own school. But it makes it hard to ask them questions about things they dont remember and I don’t understand
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Dont smear your luck and your hapiness on our faces, please.
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Ty Stratton-Quirk 4 years ago
"I'm gonna need a bigger glass...screw it, straight from the bottle it is!"
Catlady6000 4 years ago
Thanks. I was kinda wondering what was the point of the glass
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Now I understand how the French government has found all this money for theit financial assistance to businesses.
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Sista of the moon 4 years ago
My mother went to my brothers friends house for lunch break. His mother gave my mother chocolate martinis for the road
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
It is their job, so they do not need to balance teaching and working as teaching is working and they have more time to do it. Plus, they are trained professionals.
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Jen Cook 4 years ago
Agree! I'm a spectator of my siblings discovering that their children can be monstrous, I'd never give parenting criticism to them simply because I don't have kids yet but there were times pre Covid where their kids did something pretty severe and I was waiting for the immediate discipline that never came, they are certainly reaping what they sowed now.
Load More Replies... Hans 4 years ago
Thes memes are funny, but maybe we should for a moment consider the effort normally put by many teachers, the hardships for parents who somehow try to balance not loosing their jobs and not neglecting the education of their children, and especially the children who are in the lowest risk group when it comes to COVID-19 yet are among the ones who face the strongest disruptions to their everyday lifes.
Janned 4 years ago
I think that's pretty much all that is on people's minds... The memes are just a welcome distraction.
Load More Replies... Mere Cat 4 years ago
I know it's a joke and everything, but I'm a little concerned about the amount of homeschooling memes involving wine/alcohol. I had a friend with alcoholic parents, it wasn't a great thing to witness even though they weren't abusive/mean. Yes, I'm fun at parties, why do you ask... :P
Sista of the moon 4 years ago
It’s mostly an exaggeration, but alcoholism is a large problem.
Load More Replies... Boopie Dew 4 years ago
So many parents are going to be so relieved when school goes back. And I bet when their kid tells them a subject for them is hard, parents will more than believe it. I wouldn't want to be a kid these days, that work is crazy!
Ian Smith 4 years ago (edited)
I think the thing that is most irritating is when people say, "NoW YoU KnOw WhAt TeAcHeRs Go ThRoUgH." Actually, no, because kids behave differently with different people/environments and teachers aren't working another job while they do it.
Ivy Ruonakoski 4 years ago
Take into consideration that parents only have their own kids to deal with, teachers have to wrangle 20+.
Load More Replies... Lexi Mitchell 4 years ago
So, uh, before zoom classes, were all these parents completely ignoring their children’s homework?
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
"Someone replied to your comment"... If I will never know what the comment nor the reply were, I would rather get no update at all !
Sista of the moon 4 years ago
You can click on the notification and it’ll take you there
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Henry C Myers 4 years ago
when you're homeschooled and you're the only person in your state without a snow day :(
Jen Cook 4 years ago
Agree! I'm a spectator of my siblings discovering that their children can be monstrous, I'd never give parenting criticism to them simply because I don't have kids yet but there were times pre Covid where their kids did something pretty severe and I was waiting for the immediate discipline that never came, they are certainly reaping what they sowed now.
Load More Replies... Hans 4 years ago
Thes memes are funny, but maybe we should for a moment consider the effort normally put by many teachers, the hardships for parents who somehow try to balance not loosing their jobs and not neglecting the education of their children, and especially the children who are in the lowest risk group when it comes to COVID-19 yet are among the ones who face the strongest disruptions to their everyday lifes.
Janned 4 years ago
I think that's pretty much all that is on people's minds... The memes are just a welcome distraction.
Load More Replies... Mere Cat 4 years ago
I know it's a joke and everything, but I'm a little concerned about the amount of homeschooling memes involving wine/alcohol. I had a friend with alcoholic parents, it wasn't a great thing to witness even though they weren't abusive/mean. Yes, I'm fun at parties, why do you ask... :P
Sista of the moon 4 years ago
It’s mostly an exaggeration, but alcoholism is a large problem.
Load More Replies... Boopie Dew 4 years ago
So many parents are going to be so relieved when school goes back. And I bet when their kid tells them a subject for them is hard, parents will more than believe it. I wouldn't want to be a kid these days, that work is crazy!
Ian Smith 4 years ago (edited)
I think the thing that is most irritating is when people say, "NoW YoU KnOw WhAt TeAcHeRs Go ThRoUgH." Actually, no, because kids behave differently with different people/environments and teachers aren't working another job while they do it.
Ivy Ruonakoski 4 years ago
Take into consideration that parents only have their own kids to deal with, teachers have to wrangle 20+.
Load More Replies... Lexi Mitchell 4 years ago
So, uh, before zoom classes, were all these parents completely ignoring their children’s homework?
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
"Someone replied to your comment"... If I will never know what the comment nor the reply were, I would rather get no update at all !
Sista of the moon 4 years ago
You can click on the notification and it’ll take you there
Load More Replies... Henry C Myers 4 years ago
when you're homeschooled and you're the only person in your state without a snow day :(
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