New Survey Reveals How School Closures Are Impacting Parents
As schools continue to remain closed throughout the country due to coronavirus, more and more parents are finding themselves with an unexpected and challenging new job title: Teacher.
The world’s largest online learning community, Brainly surveyed 600 U.S. moms and dads of school-age children to find out how the closures and homeschooling are impacting them personally, how they are helping their kids with schoolwork in the absence of in-classroom instruction, and how it’s impacting their own work productivity.
Here’s a summary of the findings:
- WORK WOES. Nationwide 41% of parents said their work productivity has been negatively impacted by their child shifting to home learning, and 44% have had a work call interrupted by one of their children.
- THE NIGHT SHIFT. Roughly 37% of parents work an extra 1-2 hours each day to make up for time lost during business hours that were devoted to their children because of school closures, and 24% said they work an extra 2-3 hours each day.
- ANXIOUS TIMES. About 84% of parents are worried that COVID-19 related changes to their child’s education will negatively impact their learning, and 61% worry their child’s college and career prospects will be negatively impacted. Additionally, 68% of parents are worried about their job security because they have to devote more time to their children due to school closures.
- STRESS TAKES CENTERSTAGE. Nearly 79% of parents said they find it stressful to help their child with homeschooling. When it comes to the most challenging subject for parents to help their kids with, 66% of parents agree it’s math.
- TEACHER APPRECIATION. Approximately 78% of moms and dads said they have a newfound admiration and respect for their kids’ teachers after having to help their child homeschool during the COVID-19 school closures.
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