Quarentine School. How's it going? Parents and Teachers Opinions wanted.

So I am not a teacher, nor do I have a school aged kid. But my mother in law is a middle school teacher. And she has complained (maybe rightfully so, I guess that's the conversation) that the kids aren't putting in the effort, not showing up for Zoom classes, not doing the work ECT, ECT. She has contacted parents who don't seem to care and she doesn't know what to do.

And that sucks. But I've heard from parent friends that their kids are really stressed out with the change and can barely cope. That they need time to just deal with what's going on and that the parents themselves can't keep up with the expectations teachers have of them or their kids.

Which also sucks.

I know as a kid this pandemic would have made me lose my mind. I had so much anxiety that being expected to jump on Zoom and act like I'm fine and want to be there would have been hard. I also would have felt kind of violated like 'this is my home, a place to be away from school and fear but now I need to hop on every day at 11 and act like this isn't violating my bubble'.

But I have friends who say they would have loved to have done school this way.

And of course kids probably shouldn't just take the year off but this health scare is mentally scarring and I don't know if the way things are happening for schooling are helping or hurting.

What's your take? Is the internet/zoom school working? Could changes be made? Should it not be done at all? I don't have an answer obviously,

but I am curious. I've seen people pull their kids out all together because it's too much. But then are they expected to repeat that grade?

Would love to hear from both parents and teachers.