First actual day of cyber school for my son
@shaggin (74987)
United States
September 8, 2017 7:18am CST
I have a few minutes right now before my son's cyber school to pop in and write a post. His live classes today are from 8:15-12:15. Then he likely will have homework.
The past three days we did some pretty simple orientation live lessons. Today is the first actual day of learning.
Last year was so tough with my son's crying all day that I was dreading this school year. I am going to try my best to stay positive. I am going to put distractions away and try to learn right along with him.
I will pop in later to go through notifications and see how everyone is doing. I really missed being here this summer. I was just to busy with my kids to be more active and wasn't really feeling like being online. Now that I am back here I realize how much I missed it.
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@shaggin (74987)
• United States
8 Sep 17
I am praying he does better. Maybe just being a little older and understanding there is no choice in having to sit and be bored and learn will help. So far so good today. We got through one class...Social Studies. Starting Science in just a moment.
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@Tina30219 (82978)
• Onaway, Michigan
8 Sep 17
Yes when you are gone you do miss it when you are gone. I missed seeing you here. Glad to see you back here and posting. I hope things get better for your son.
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@shaggin (74987)
• United States
8 Sep 17
I am so tired I would love to hear to bed now but it is way to early. I can say after getting up at 7am all week I had really enjoyed sleeping in all summer. I greatly look forward to sleeping in again tomorrow morning. I think my kids and I are going shopping tomorrow to spend their money they earned from their yard sale last weekend.
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@shaggin (74987)
• United States
10 Sep 17
@Tina30219 I got to sleep until 9:30. As soon as I got up I got a call from my niece asking if I could help her with the baby who kept crying for her mom. I watched her for about a half hour or so. When my sister picked the baby up she brought me a donut from Dunkin Donuts. I had already eaten a few cookies. I didn't eat much else throughout the day and had a late dinner so now I have a head ache.
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@Tina30219 (82978)
• Onaway, Michigan
9 Sep 17
@shaggin Enjoy your shopping. Yeah sleep in tomorrow as long as you can
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@KrauseHome (36445)
• United States
8 Sep 17
I am hoping this can be a help for your son. It is important to help them see and understand learning is Fun and want to continue to do so. As to not being active here, I do understand as I have been quite active myself lately with a lot of other things.
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@shaggin (74987)
• United States
8 Sep 17
He enjoys science class the most but today they showed close up views of spiders heads and ants crawling around and it creeped him out really bad. He cried and ran into the bathroom. It was a fairly good day though and shorter then other school days for him will be.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
8 Sep 17
Oh that is great Shaggin. Good he is doing cyber school.
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@shaggin (74987)
• United States
8 Sep 17
He did very well all summer since he didn't have to do any school but that was how he was the previous summer. For whatever reason schooling is his trigger. Today went okay. He was done with everything by noon. Next week he will start having homework so there will be more to do after the live classes. After he had lunch I got time to go out and mow the lawn and finished up just as my daughter was getting home. I am making dinner now and I sure am tired.
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@shaggin (74987)
• United States
9 Sep 17
@JudyEv Public school was harder for him to handle emotionally. Actual homeschooling rather then cyber school would likely work better as he could do that off and on all day instead of sitting in from of a computer for hours. But I do not feel I would be able to teach him most subjects alone. I like him being able to learn from the teachers in the live classes.
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@LeaPea2417 (40058)
• Toccoa, Georgia
15 Sep 17
That is great your son doesn't have to go back to the school that he struggled with. Thank goodness for Online/Cyber Schools that exist now!
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@LeaPea2417 (40058)
• Toccoa, Georgia
16 Sep 17
@shaggin That is great he is doing well with it.
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@CinnamonGrl (7086)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
8 Sep 17
I sure hope it goes well with the cyber school. If I'd had that opportunity with my kids I might have tried that too. That was before computers, heh heh. And I had to go to work anyway. Let us know how it goes
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@shaggin (74987)
• United States
10 Sep 17
Even if you have to work you could have done the old school homeschooling with books. But working and doing the cyber school I think would be too hard as they have to attend live classes at certain times. I suppose if someone worked nights they could do the school with their kids during the morning then sleep after that but it would be tough.
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@shaggin (74987)
• United States
5 Oct 17
Most days are going pretty good thankfully. Yesterday was a bad day but in the month or so since cyber school started I think we've only had 3 or 4 of these bad days.
@shaggin (74987)
• United States
13 Sep 17
Aww thank you very much! So far he is doing well in cyber school. No major meltdowns like last year...so far.
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
8 Sep 17
My cousin is doing cyber school for her Hugh school years and she has done really well with it.
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@shaggin (74987)
• United States
8 Sep 17
I am trying. Today went okay. He cried twice and was very worried because the teacher had them fill out this thing for math and it was their birth day month, pets owned, how long it takes to get ready for school etc... It was just for fun but he felt like she was a stalker and said he won't be able to sleep at night now since he is worried about it. He worries to much!
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