Some parents lament mismatch between advice for parents to chillout about schooling during lockdown, and the amount of work schools are passing on. Some parents of primary school-aged children are shelving online learning tasks sent to them by their schools, as children officially start back at school under lockdown. She and her son became stressed when they tried to access online learning tasks via Google Classrooms, emailed by her son's school. Nigel Latta encouraged parents only to help children do school work during lockdown, if their children wanted to. "Adding school work into the equation via systems the kids are not already familiar with is too much right now," she said.

Source: Stuff April 15, 2020 06:11 UTC