Article 539D8 'Some days it's over by 11am': schooling under lockdown around the world

'Some days it's over by 11am': schooling under lockdown around the world

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Adapting, picking battles and bribery aid home schooling from Bulgaria to Bondi Beach during the coronavirus pandemic

The words of Paula Leibowitz, an Australian education worker and mother of three, will be hauntingly familiar to parents trying to weather the pandemic, keep on top of their jobs and, most challenging of all, ensure their offspring carry on learning while schools are closed.

It's pretty tiring," says Leibowitz, who lives in the Sydney beachside suburb of Bondi. It's not just the schoolwork, it's the intensity of the ongoing interaction."

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