The boys started online school Monday 8/24. Will’s first class started at 8:00 ET, so 6:00 am here in Colorado. Nick had a much later start time and got to sleep in a little bit.
We had a mostly successful first day of school. Nick had an issue with logging on to one of his classes that caused a lot of frustration. We got it figured out though. It seemed like it was a pretty common thing for the first day of school with other students and the teachers.
They have online lessons with the teacher talking to the class and everyone sees the same screen. They also have assigned work, which could be online or with their physical books. They have to have a certain number of hours each day, and I have to log them online by 11:30 pm each day. It is slightly flexible in that they can work on assignments and book work any time during the day. They do have to attend the teacher “live” classes. Those classes are recorded, so if they were sick or had an appointment, we could let the teacher know and he could watch the recording later and still count towards their attendance for class.
Most of the time, Will comes out to the kitchen table to work and Nick works at his desk. Sometimes they will both be working in their room. It seems to be working out pretty well so far.
Sounds like online school is working out!! Technology is amazing!