Our child who is doing much worse since school went back from holidays has expectations closer to Ashely's child.... and outcomes identical to AEHs child (well more other sorts of non productive screen use than video games).

Kids are expected to "check in" via a comment on Google classroom for every lesson as per their usual schedule, and sometimes participate in a hangout session, but mostly they (theoretically) do their work quietly by themselves, based on documents they will have found posted across two different websites (classrooms and the school LMS), or possibly via email. They are often are required to submit videos of themselves doing certain tasks.

If there is an interactive class only the teacher is allowed to have camera and mic on, but sometimes children are required to turn their mic on to answer or perform (specialist music school).

This child has been investigated twice for selective mutism, and multiple times for ASD, neither of which they have, but they ARE incredibly shy, introverted and with extreme ADHD...

We were specifically told they were supposed to do this in a room "without distractions" for the school day, ideally their bedrooms...Who thought teenagers would be more focused alone in their rooms with a computer and internet access? WHY did they not say "Ideally at somewhere where you will remain constantly accountable to your parents and have their support to stay on task and manage your "free" time productively"

It's a disaster.