In response to the online survey, one couple who are frontline workers and have a seven-year-old and two children in daycare said they were only managing two hours of homeschooling. Every week their child only has three classes online, each lasting 40 minutes.
The couple said teachers and schools “are doing their very best but we are losing our minds”.
A mother of three national school children said they were taught for five-and-a-half hour days from 9am until 2.30pm.
She felt there was appropriate support from school and there was more structure in this lockdown.
Another mother was finding this lockdown “much more difficult”.