The homeschooling dilemma: should we give our kids the summer off? The Telegraph

Parents across the UK are divided about whether to give their locked-down children six weeks of holiday or to carry on teaching in the hope of making up ground lost when schools closed. Here, two mothers make their case for how the summer should be spent. Anna Turns says: ‘I won’t let my daughter near a textbook.’

I cannot wait to log off Google Classroom and get my daughter away from the screen. I’m aware that some parents are planning to use the summer as a chance to catch up on lessons, and practise spellings, fractions or times tables, but I won’t be letting my eight-year-old daughter, Ella, go near a textbook, online or off.

For the next six weeks, I want her to play, relax and grow in confidence. To splash around on the beach, ­paddleboard, go rock pooling and hang out in the garden with her friends. We both need time to sit still, pause and really take stock.

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