The biggest hurdle we've personally faced with home-learning has been getting our eldest engaged in the work set by his school; there's been teething problems but they now regularly put out work which is quite challenging, diverse and (I find) fairly interesting

But it's clear that the work is significantly stripped down without that classroom context, which makes keeping him on track and working through challenges a greater time-commitment than I have available for him. If we weren't supported by family I have no doubt that he would have entirely disconnected from his education.

In the UK we're looking at reopening in March, and there's even talk of having students repeat a year which I feel is going too far in the wrong direction. There's been a significant loss in learning but the answer to that won't be to hold students back but rather, I feel, push them forward.

Edit: More relevant is discussion around continuing education digitally which is interesting to me, we've seen instructions now from the school on how to access the Google Classroom from games consoles. It feels like if we're at that point -- then it should be clear we do not have the infrastructure to do this long-term in place -- yet.

I'm also keeping an eye on the safeguarding impact as that has been wildly out of control without the schools being able to students each day, have those informal discussions and just -- listen -- to the kids.