DESCRIPTION
Parents are calling their own parents for help with their children¡¯s virtual learning
as they balance working from home and child care.
TRANSCRIPT
And now to our series remote control with so many kids learning virtually now
many parents are calling in their own parents for backup Becky Wurley has
more on I love this name grandma school good morning brothers Colton and
Gavin and their cousin Jacob are doing their zoom school a little differently
today that's perfect their moms and dads are at work we were doing school
work kind of around my schedule to be honest but when we switched to live
teaching and live instruction it was almost virtually impossible for us to do both
so Kelly turned to her mom grandma Nita had a preschool for many years
before retiring so she runs a tight ship she keeps track of when their class
sessions start makes them snacks and lunch and then supervises them during
their breaks I'm happy to help out because it's just so overwhelming founder
and consultant for surviving home school Delise Bernard also enlisted the help
of her own mother and says she sees many grandparents jumping in to help
with virtual learning the grandparents are a huge part of our surviving it takes
a lot of load off of a parent as a primary teacher but maybe the biggest thing
when it comes to grandma school is bandwidth issues I'm old i don't I'm not
tech savvy at all sometimes the WI-fi drops out sometimes when she doesn't
know anything i just show her while grandparents helping out is a solution for
some this may only work for grandparents who are not only geographically
close by to their families but who are healthy enough to take the risk of
widening their circle i think everybody is very aware and being careful and
so it allows us to have the freedom to see them all right i think i want to
go to gram school and while the supervision and support for working
parents is crucial for Jacob's mom Rachel a high school counselor the
social benefits for the kids is a big factor too the social emotional piece
that's been so important to be with his cousins and be able to play on
his breaks and after school and I'm just so grateful for that for good
morning America Becky Wurley ABC news Oakland California and our
thanks to Becky for that you can find more resources about remote
learning on our website Good Morning America. com well hey there GMA
fans robin Roberts here thanks for checking out our YouTube channel lots
of great stuff here so go on click the subscribe button right over right
over here to get more of awesome videos and content from GMA every
day anytime we thank you for watching and we'll see you in the morning on gma
QUESTIONS
1. Define ¡°Grandma School.¡±
2. Discuss some downfall of Grandma School.
3. What impact will the Coronavirus have on the education system in your country?