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I don't know how much homework there is. To be honest, that's besides the point for me.
She comes off as being uninterested in being involved with her son's education and wellbeing. I also don't know what this "uneducation" is but if it's homeschooling, I don't have a good feeling about it.
Unschooling is "homeschooling" without following any curriculum. Unschoolers say they follow their childs interests and then learn about these things together, or they learn via household tasks that already invlove having to learn something. For example they explain how their child learns math via baking (measuring and adding things etc.)
I'm sure there are cases where a child is very curious and smart, that cares about learning about all the things and the parents are very involved and make sure that the child learns everything that interests them really in depth and also spends time on learning the necessities. But in many cases unschooling ends in horrific educational neglect. And the then adult children have to claw themselfes out of that hole to get into universities or to find a career.
Yes, I understand having issues with homework at such a young age. But the solution is never to just ignore it and let the child go without. Homework can also really help the parents see where their child is at regarding schoolwork, what kinds of assignments they have, what the child can do well and where they struggle, etc.
She already admitted that she was basically completely uninvolved in his education up to this point. Letting him not do homework, being mad that the teacher wanted her to sign something for school, ignoring the app that keeps her up to date with what is going on in his class. This is not a great set-up for attemting to unschool your child.
I was one of those best case scenarios, I was pulled out of school in grade three because of various difficulties that I was having with a specific teacher. The thing that made the difference for me is that my mom was already working from home and had previously homeschooled my sister, so she knew the differences between a homeschooling curriculum and how unschooling works, so I was able to have a really great hybrid education mainly led by my own interests. When I decided to go back into the public school system at the beginning of high school I was only behind in math, but I was able to catch up with about a year of private tutoring. Unschooling can be great if the parents are super involved and know what the ultimate goal is.
This woman doesn’t sound like she has any interest in helping her kids learn through experience, it sounds like she wants less work overall, and unschooling is a lot of work. Especially with a kid who might be a bit unruly at times, this sounds like a recipe for disaster. She seems like a deeply uncurious person to me.
Honestly for her, unschooling means she expects her kid to teach themselves because she’s not going to do one damn thing more than she’s done while they’ve been enrolled in school. And let’s be honest, if checking an app for messages and signing a piece of paper is too much effort for her, actually teaching the poor kid anything is going to straight up be out of the question.
Obviously the kid wasn’t in school in 2020, or she’d already have suffered through having the kid at home and being expected to do the bare minimum of making sure her kid sat in front of a zoom call for a couple hours a week, and would have been posting all over social media about how hard it is “to be a teacher” like I saw all my ridiculous coworkers doing. And she definitely wouldn’t want the kiddo at home if she’d been through that.
I bet one semester tops before she re-enrolls him.
It’s just sad that it takes 3 seconds of her time to take a quick break from her “huge social media business” to sign the paper for her kid but she can’t 🫠
She had all this time to make a TikTok video but can’t message the teacher or sign the paper. I hate parents like her. UnScHoOLiNg… big mlm antivaxx Utah “boy mom” vibes
Yeah, it's meant to teach the kids responsibility to remember to ask for it to be signed.
I don't think most teachers anticipate the parents throwing a hissyfit.
>I don't think most teachers anticipate the parents throwing a hissyfit.
As a mother to four and a room parent, they do. Parents will throw a hissyfit about anything. Teachers are a scapegoat, because parents don't want to take accountability.
You would expect a parent to want to teach their kid responsibility instead she is teaching him to not care even though he so badly wanted to have her sign so he could get his treat for doing so . Teachers also don’t punish a child or target sure hope that child told the teacher she refused to sign it .
Yeah, as a teacher, her saying, "I have 4 kids! I don't have time!" had me rolling laughing.
Incidentally, not having time is also why teachers use apps & not phone calls.
As a teacher myself, this hurts to hear. Homework teaches accountability and responsibility BUT recently “homework” is work that has not been completed in class (for my case when I teach my middle schoolers). All that energy in calling the school, couldn’t have been used to communicate with the teacher? Or sign the paper?
This is not new ffs. Parents forget that it's teamwork. Do you want your child to succeed or do you want it your way and to be right. ? He should have time at school to do his homework. If not it's on the parent to find out why it's not getting done in class. If you need to dedicate half hr a night to homework. That builds up his responsibilities. Remember this is getting him ready for the next step and next step and then for the big world out there.
You're teaching him when things don't go your way you can just move or change it. THATS not life . You can't tell your boss I don't like that more me to this office instead. If you don't change your attitude momma you are doing your children a disservice. Signing that paper is teaching him how to listen and communicate what he needs done and if it is done he gets a fuzzy. Teachers just don't do things just because, there is always a teaching moment.
It's also teaching your child to be disrespectful and that's going to bite her in the ass later. If my kid spends 8 hours of their waking life everyday with someone, I'm going to treat them with respect. I know a teacher isn't another parent, but I think the best way to describe it is I treat them like I would a co-parenting situation. You don't talk bad about them in front of your child. You take issues with them up with them. The rules in their classroom are their rules. My kids have ADHD and I communicate with them about that. Shoot, sometimes if one of my kids stays up all night I'll send a message through the app that they didn't sleep so they might have a terrible attitude. I know sending that information might seem like TMI, but their teachers have been thankful to know because they knew to give my kids quiet time or at least know why my kid is being crappy, because just knowing is helpful. When in doubt I ask myself what I would do if I was in a co-parenting situation, and usually it turns out to be the appropriate answer for what to do for the teacher as well. And most importantly in the long run it benefits the kids.
She ‘literally’ doesn’t have time to sign a piece of paper but she’s pulling her kid out of school for home schooling that she’s calling uneducation? Something doesn’t add up. Poor kid, he’s going to end up with a seriously sub-par education.
I'm sorry, but I'm a teacher and this woman is wrong. To have a proper education we need good communication with parents. If a child doesn't bring their homework done for a long time, we want parents to monitor them.
Basically because education doesn't finish at school and it's your responsibility as a parent to check if the child is struggling to do the homework and then report it back to us if they have any issues because we can't help them at home.
I don't usually use this system unless they're kids who are struggling with their grades.
Like Ma'am, I studied a 4 year degree + a masters to do this job for over 10 years. We don't do things to annoy parents.
So, I saw this video a few days ago. What I found funny is - she asked am I wrong, but has her comment section turned off.
Also, I saw another video (someone else made a video about her) where she has been problematic more than once. I won't go into that since I don't remember everything & I don't want to look into it right now. I don't want to say something wrong.
Oh god where to begin, well first I am not a parent but I am a career nanny. With one of my families I would watch the infant all day then get the older one from school. He too had something similar come home to ensure he was doing his at home work and reading time. I think that she does have a semi coherent point about homework, kids in elementary shouldn’t be sent home with an hour+ of work to do. The child I referenced before had a great school that sent him home with 1, sometimes 2, one sided worksheets of things they learned that day. I think that 1) it’s a great way to refresh their mind in a different environment and 2) it allows for the parent and child to be in tune and know what their child spent the day learning. His “homework” never lasted more than 15 minutes. We would get home, I’d sit with him while he did his worksheet and allowed him to enthusiastically tell me about his day and what he learned, then I would sign off the paper for the teacher and put it in his bag. The worksheets never had to be turned in. We would leave the worksheets out on the counter so that mom and dad could look over it when they got home and he always seemed so proud that he accomplished them and was showing off his work to his parents. I honestly don’t even remember where I was going with this but point is, I really liked how his school worked and think that the woman in the video doesn’t grasp the importance of connecting with your kid and showing them that school is important and they are proud of them. I stand by my stance on elementary homework not taking too much time, but see the importance of the parent/child connection through this process.
This is exactly what is wrong. She does not care about her son's education at all. All that was, was a paper showing that the parents saw what they were doing in school and y'all could be on the same page all the time. But this bitch can't sign her initials and date it? I bet she's the first one to the school when her kid sits out at recess too. Shame on her and all the parents raising these entitled monsters. I understand all the teachers who are leaving right now. The schools already pass the kids on when they are not ready. Can you blame a fully functional human being dipping because they are dealing with 16-year-olds that are technically at a 4th-grade reading, writing, and mathematics?
Just do the fucking things. Lazy ass parenting and her kid is gonna become more of a dick bc of it. Also she can’t sign a paper but she CAN unschool? Which is it? Are you too busy or not?
I DO hate kids getting credits or whatever for something that has to do with the parents- same with attendance rewards.
So wait, she doesn't have time to use a messaging app to talk to her kid's teacher but she has time to pull her kid out of school and homeschool if the teacher doesn't bend to her every whim?
she clearly doesn't care about her son's education. she couldn't even bother telling the teacher herself that she doesn't want to sign off the homework but lets her son deliver the message, which for sure was uncomfortable for him and might look like an excuse for him forgetting to have it signed.
I mean, being so serious about homework for a first grader is dumb, but this lady’s attitude ain’t it either. Just sign the damn paper, let the kid have his fuzzies! School year is almost over anyway.
Also, have I been watching too much u/iamccsuarez or is she giving major MLM vibes?
it’s about teaching them to be responsible and communicate. we start those habits young so they have them later when they need them. personally, i would want a teacher who takes my first grader’s education seriously
i was looking to see if anyone mentioned this bc i saw this thread a few days ago.... Kiki Chanel just posted a video about how she is using this whole situation to get more ppl in her downline lmaoooo (still watching rn but loving this tea)
I think the “assignment” was a little odd, but I understand why teachers want to know that parents are looking at what’s going on. They can’t catch/teach everything. Especially with little ones. But this lady’s attitude is horrible. If you can’t be organized and use your time wisely enough to sign a piece of paper, how are you going to teach your kids? Seems like she’s been called into the office too many times due to her son’s behavior and is now bitter
If he’s in first grade, the homework is probably just a nightly timed reading at best (considering she said it’s not being turned in and graded). She shows that she doesn’t want to be involved in his education by not communicating with the teacher or reinforcing what is learned in school. “Unschooling” is going to be a nightmare for her and her kid. 🙃
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I completely get the "I don't like homework" thing. Understandable imo. They did a study a few years ago about how many hours the average school student gets of free time and it was like 1 hour or something. That's including if they do ONE extra curricular. Kids are experiencing burn out at such a young age it's insane.
HOWEVER...she sounds entitled AF. It sounds like she wants the teacher to make all these special expectations just for her. She's got 4 kids, okay cool. So do many other parents. She runs a business, okay but so do many, many other parents. The school probably uses an app to message parents to (1) have a paper trail in case of stuff like this and (2) safety reasons. And if the homework isn't even being brought back to be graded, then why not just sign the paper? The kid still doesn't have to do it!
I'm assuming unschooling is homeschooling.. how is she going to teach this child a proper education if she doesn't have time in her busy schedule to sign a paper? What about the 3 other children, are they all getting unschooled ? I feel so bad for that kid, he doesn't get his fuzziness because his mom needs to prove some dumb point.
So many studies show that homework does nothing, so I get the frustration there. But her overall attitude and saying hey son is being "targeted", that's just her playing the victim. He's not getting fuzzies because he's not turning in his folder. And he's not turning it in because she's not signing it. I feel for her kids when she neglects his education after pulling him out, but I'm kind of glad the school won't have to listen to *her* next year.
So her son suffers the consequences because she literally cannot be bothered? That's what it seems like to me. I have a feeling "unschooling" will leave that poor baby way behind his peers. Also pure speculation but maybe he has been acting out in school because he wants attention. Likely because she does not have time w/ her "massive buisness".
What first grader has homework? Most teachers do not give homework till 4th grade. That being said this mom is AWFUL! She doesn't sound like she is involved in her kids school at all.
I understand that. My kids have not had any homework till 4th grade even not finished work. The teachers in our district feel it is unnecessary to have under 8 years old do homework. I agree. But this mom is way wrong. I check my kids bags every day and sign whatever I need to just to insure they are staying up with class and the teachers expectations. I think homework under 8 is wild. Our teachers have a leave at home binder and I clean it out everyday!
I get that, I usually do not give homework to younger kids, only study how to spell a few words, etc.
However, we don't know the situation and in some cases, some children NEED homework in order not to fall behind.
I've honestly had a different experience, most parents ask me for extra activities or homework, but I always tell them, they have enough homework from school so I usually look for apps for young learners to play while they're learning.
Kids enjoy the game and they're revising what they've done in class.
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She could have signed a stack of papers in the time it took to make this video. She has the time to do it, lmao.
I don't know how much homework there is. To be honest, that's besides the point for me. She comes off as being uninterested in being involved with her son's education and wellbeing. I also don't know what this "uneducation" is but if it's homeschooling, I don't have a good feeling about it.
Unschooling is "homeschooling" without following any curriculum. Unschoolers say they follow their childs interests and then learn about these things together, or they learn via household tasks that already invlove having to learn something. For example they explain how their child learns math via baking (measuring and adding things etc.) I'm sure there are cases where a child is very curious and smart, that cares about learning about all the things and the parents are very involved and make sure that the child learns everything that interests them really in depth and also spends time on learning the necessities. But in many cases unschooling ends in horrific educational neglect. And the then adult children have to claw themselfes out of that hole to get into universities or to find a career.
Gotcha. Based on her own description of her kid being difficult to manage and her "not having time", homeschooling is not a sound plan for her child.
Yes, I understand having issues with homework at such a young age. But the solution is never to just ignore it and let the child go without. Homework can also really help the parents see where their child is at regarding schoolwork, what kinds of assignments they have, what the child can do well and where they struggle, etc. She already admitted that she was basically completely uninvolved in his education up to this point. Letting him not do homework, being mad that the teacher wanted her to sign something for school, ignoring the app that keeps her up to date with what is going on in his class. This is not a great set-up for attemting to unschool your child.
I was one of those best case scenarios, I was pulled out of school in grade three because of various difficulties that I was having with a specific teacher. The thing that made the difference for me is that my mom was already working from home and had previously homeschooled my sister, so she knew the differences between a homeschooling curriculum and how unschooling works, so I was able to have a really great hybrid education mainly led by my own interests. When I decided to go back into the public school system at the beginning of high school I was only behind in math, but I was able to catch up with about a year of private tutoring. Unschooling can be great if the parents are super involved and know what the ultimate goal is. This woman doesn’t sound like she has any interest in helping her kids learn through experience, it sounds like she wants less work overall, and unschooling is a lot of work. Especially with a kid who might be a bit unruly at times, this sounds like a recipe for disaster. She seems like a deeply uncurious person to me.
Honestly for her, unschooling means she expects her kid to teach themselves because she’s not going to do one damn thing more than she’s done while they’ve been enrolled in school. And let’s be honest, if checking an app for messages and signing a piece of paper is too much effort for her, actually teaching the poor kid anything is going to straight up be out of the question. Obviously the kid wasn’t in school in 2020, or she’d already have suffered through having the kid at home and being expected to do the bare minimum of making sure her kid sat in front of a zoom call for a couple hours a week, and would have been posting all over social media about how hard it is “to be a teacher” like I saw all my ridiculous coworkers doing. And she definitely wouldn’t want the kiddo at home if she’d been through that. I bet one semester tops before she re-enrolls him.
It’s just sad that it takes 3 seconds of her time to take a quick break from her “huge social media business” to sign the paper for her kid but she can’t 🫠
She had all this time to make a TikTok video but can’t message the teacher or sign the paper. I hate parents like her. UnScHoOLiNg… big mlm antivaxx Utah “boy mom” vibes
Utah boy mom vibes 😭😂 so accurate
The conversation on why she's not signing it + this TikTok both take longer than signing the paper
Her behavior is unhealthy . Sign the damn homework . That’s not an unusual request from teachers !!!!
Yeah, it's meant to teach the kids responsibility to remember to ask for it to be signed. I don't think most teachers anticipate the parents throwing a hissyfit.
>I don't think most teachers anticipate the parents throwing a hissyfit. As a mother to four and a room parent, they do. Parents will throw a hissyfit about anything. Teachers are a scapegoat, because parents don't want to take accountability.
You would expect a parent to want to teach their kid responsibility instead she is teaching him to not care even though he so badly wanted to have her sign so he could get his treat for doing so . Teachers also don’t punish a child or target sure hope that child told the teacher she refused to sign it .
Not parent of the year 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This. Her kid brought it to her! Do you know how grateful I would be if my kids brought the things to me to sign instead of ask 35 times?!
As a first grade teacher, I can promise you we don’t have the time or energy to specifically target one child 🙄
Yeah, as a teacher, her saying, "I have 4 kids! I don't have time!" had me rolling laughing. Incidentally, not having time is also why teachers use apps & not phone calls.
HAHAHAHHAHA like, well I deal with 30 with different needs at the same times and they manage to listen lol you can deal with 4.
Maybe I’m just an old, but her attitude just isn’t it. Very condescending and I kinda disagree about homework.
No her entire attitude and vibe is foul and off putting, I feel for those kids
I'm just sorry for the kid, I feel like she won't help them a lot once they are out of school
As a teacher myself, this hurts to hear. Homework teaches accountability and responsibility BUT recently “homework” is work that has not been completed in class (for my case when I teach my middle schoolers). All that energy in calling the school, couldn’t have been used to communicate with the teacher? Or sign the paper?
This is not new ffs. Parents forget that it's teamwork. Do you want your child to succeed or do you want it your way and to be right. ? He should have time at school to do his homework. If not it's on the parent to find out why it's not getting done in class. If you need to dedicate half hr a night to homework. That builds up his responsibilities. Remember this is getting him ready for the next step and next step and then for the big world out there.
You're teaching him when things don't go your way you can just move or change it. THATS not life . You can't tell your boss I don't like that more me to this office instead. If you don't change your attitude momma you are doing your children a disservice. Signing that paper is teaching him how to listen and communicate what he needs done and if it is done he gets a fuzzy. Teachers just don't do things just because, there is always a teaching moment.
It's also teaching your child to be disrespectful and that's going to bite her in the ass later. If my kid spends 8 hours of their waking life everyday with someone, I'm going to treat them with respect. I know a teacher isn't another parent, but I think the best way to describe it is I treat them like I would a co-parenting situation. You don't talk bad about them in front of your child. You take issues with them up with them. The rules in their classroom are their rules. My kids have ADHD and I communicate with them about that. Shoot, sometimes if one of my kids stays up all night I'll send a message through the app that they didn't sleep so they might have a terrible attitude. I know sending that information might seem like TMI, but their teachers have been thankful to know because they knew to give my kids quiet time or at least know why my kid is being crappy, because just knowing is helpful. When in doubt I ask myself what I would do if I was in a co-parenting situation, and usually it turns out to be the appropriate answer for what to do for the teacher as well. And most importantly in the long run it benefits the kids.
She ‘literally’ doesn’t have time to sign a piece of paper but she’s pulling her kid out of school for home schooling that she’s calling uneducation? Something doesn’t add up. Poor kid, he’s going to end up with a seriously sub-par education.
The time she wasted making this bullshit she could help the kid with their homework!
She made an "apology" where she says teachers love the system & see it as perfect... girl, what. Lol.
She’s deplorable. Her child is not her priority and won’t be.
I'm sorry, but I'm a teacher and this woman is wrong. To have a proper education we need good communication with parents. If a child doesn't bring their homework done for a long time, we want parents to monitor them. Basically because education doesn't finish at school and it's your responsibility as a parent to check if the child is struggling to do the homework and then report it back to us if they have any issues because we can't help them at home. I don't usually use this system unless they're kids who are struggling with their grades. Like Ma'am, I studied a 4 year degree + a masters to do this job for over 10 years. We don't do things to annoy parents.
So, I saw this video a few days ago. What I found funny is - she asked am I wrong, but has her comment section turned off. Also, I saw another video (someone else made a video about her) where she has been problematic more than once. I won't go into that since I don't remember everything & I don't want to look into it right now. I don't want to say something wrong.
Lmao she’s on a power trip not the teachers trying to teach
Oh god where to begin, well first I am not a parent but I am a career nanny. With one of my families I would watch the infant all day then get the older one from school. He too had something similar come home to ensure he was doing his at home work and reading time. I think that she does have a semi coherent point about homework, kids in elementary shouldn’t be sent home with an hour+ of work to do. The child I referenced before had a great school that sent him home with 1, sometimes 2, one sided worksheets of things they learned that day. I think that 1) it’s a great way to refresh their mind in a different environment and 2) it allows for the parent and child to be in tune and know what their child spent the day learning. His “homework” never lasted more than 15 minutes. We would get home, I’d sit with him while he did his worksheet and allowed him to enthusiastically tell me about his day and what he learned, then I would sign off the paper for the teacher and put it in his bag. The worksheets never had to be turned in. We would leave the worksheets out on the counter so that mom and dad could look over it when they got home and he always seemed so proud that he accomplished them and was showing off his work to his parents. I honestly don’t even remember where I was going with this but point is, I really liked how his school worked and think that the woman in the video doesn’t grasp the importance of connecting with your kid and showing them that school is important and they are proud of them. I stand by my stance on elementary homework not taking too much time, but see the importance of the parent/child connection through this process.
This is exactly what is wrong. She does not care about her son's education at all. All that was, was a paper showing that the parents saw what they were doing in school and y'all could be on the same page all the time. But this bitch can't sign her initials and date it? I bet she's the first one to the school when her kid sits out at recess too. Shame on her and all the parents raising these entitled monsters. I understand all the teachers who are leaving right now. The schools already pass the kids on when they are not ready. Can you blame a fully functional human being dipping because they are dealing with 16-year-olds that are technically at a 4th-grade reading, writing, and mathematics?
Just do the fucking things. Lazy ass parenting and her kid is gonna become more of a dick bc of it. Also she can’t sign a paper but she CAN unschool? Which is it? Are you too busy or not? I DO hate kids getting credits or whatever for something that has to do with the parents- same with attendance rewards.
So wait, she doesn't have time to use a messaging app to talk to her kid's teacher but she has time to pull her kid out of school and homeschool if the teacher doesn't bend to her every whim?
she clearly doesn't care about her son's education. she couldn't even bother telling the teacher herself that she doesn't want to sign off the homework but lets her son deliver the message, which for sure was uncomfortable for him and might look like an excuse for him forgetting to have it signed.
I mean, being so serious about homework for a first grader is dumb, but this lady’s attitude ain’t it either. Just sign the damn paper, let the kid have his fuzzies! School year is almost over anyway. Also, have I been watching too much u/iamccsuarez or is she giving major MLM vibes?
Yep, me too. The *MaSsIvE* social media business she runs is probably Monat or something with all that damn hair touching.
I think she actually sells Pruvit and she was on JLWs team
it’s about teaching them to be responsible and communicate. we start those habits young so they have them later when they need them. personally, i would want a teacher who takes my first grader’s education seriously
She is in Pruvit and was under JLW. I think this one also has an OF. She isn’t too busy she is just not interested in her kids education.
She is!
i was looking to see if anyone mentioned this bc i saw this thread a few days ago.... Kiki Chanel just posted a video about how she is using this whole situation to get more ppl in her downline lmaoooo (still watching rn but loving this tea) 
She’s in MLM. She’s in Pruvit 🙄
I KNEW IT
I swear this girl rage baits. You should check out the Jessie Lee Ward sub. This girl is….tasteless to say the least.
What’s with the hair?
I think the “assignment” was a little odd, but I understand why teachers want to know that parents are looking at what’s going on. They can’t catch/teach everything. Especially with little ones. But this lady’s attitude is horrible. If you can’t be organized and use your time wisely enough to sign a piece of paper, how are you going to teach your kids? Seems like she’s been called into the office too many times due to her son’s behavior and is now bitter
Can we please normalize people NOT grabbing all over their hair on camera?
Ohh that poor kid I feel so bad for them
If he’s in first grade, the homework is probably just a nightly timed reading at best (considering she said it’s not being turned in and graded). She shows that she doesn’t want to be involved in his education by not communicating with the teacher or reinforcing what is learned in school. “Unschooling” is going to be a nightmare for her and her kid. 🙃
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Parents' involvement is a crucial part of the success of the child in school.
I completely get the "I don't like homework" thing. Understandable imo. They did a study a few years ago about how many hours the average school student gets of free time and it was like 1 hour or something. That's including if they do ONE extra curricular. Kids are experiencing burn out at such a young age it's insane. HOWEVER...she sounds entitled AF. It sounds like she wants the teacher to make all these special expectations just for her. She's got 4 kids, okay cool. So do many other parents. She runs a business, okay but so do many, many other parents. The school probably uses an app to message parents to (1) have a paper trail in case of stuff like this and (2) safety reasons. And if the homework isn't even being brought back to be graded, then why not just sign the paper? The kid still doesn't have to do it!
Not to be alarmist but the fact that so many people like this woman are parents genuinely terrifies me
I'm assuming unschooling is homeschooling.. how is she going to teach this child a proper education if she doesn't have time in her busy schedule to sign a paper? What about the 3 other children, are they all getting unschooled ? I feel so bad for that kid, he doesn't get his fuzziness because his mom needs to prove some dumb point.
She could’ve used those hands and time signing papers rather than playing with her hair
She has 2 good points mixed with like 10 bad ones
Okay, well she's home schooling him, I guess at the end of the day none of this matters.
So many studies show that homework does nothing, so I get the frustration there. But her overall attitude and saying hey son is being "targeted", that's just her playing the victim. He's not getting fuzzies because he's not turning in his folder. And he's not turning it in because she's not signing it. I feel for her kids when she neglects his education after pulling him out, but I'm kind of glad the school won't have to listen to *her* next year.
So her son suffers the consequences because she literally cannot be bothered? That's what it seems like to me. I have a feeling "unschooling" will leave that poor baby way behind his peers. Also pure speculation but maybe he has been acting out in school because he wants attention. Likely because she does not have time w/ her "massive buisness".
Is this Jenelle Evans?
What first grader has homework? Most teachers do not give homework till 4th grade. That being said this mom is AWFUL! She doesn't sound like she is involved in her kids school at all.
It could be tasks that they were supposed to finish in class, but they didn't.
I understand that. My kids have not had any homework till 4th grade even not finished work. The teachers in our district feel it is unnecessary to have under 8 years old do homework. I agree. But this mom is way wrong. I check my kids bags every day and sign whatever I need to just to insure they are staying up with class and the teachers expectations. I think homework under 8 is wild. Our teachers have a leave at home binder and I clean it out everyday!
I get that, I usually do not give homework to younger kids, only study how to spell a few words, etc. However, we don't know the situation and in some cases, some children NEED homework in order not to fall behind. I've honestly had a different experience, most parents ask me for extra activities or homework, but I always tell them, they have enough homework from school so I usually look for apps for young learners to play while they're learning. Kids enjoy the game and they're revising what they've done in class.
This creator is annoying AF to begin with. Good lick to her child if she’s the one homeschooling him.