"Family survey highlights stresses of pandemic, remote learning on parents in Worcester"

“WORCESTER — Respondents to a recent family survey about the Worcester public schools' switch to remote learning this year reported having trouble structuring their child’s learning time, being stressed by their economic and living conditions, and, in the case of single parents, getting little support for their situation.

But that feedback, in a report released this week by the Worcester Education Justice Alliance, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, and the Parents Union of Massachusetts, is a snapshot of what local parents were dealing with in the spring, after Worcester’s sudden shift to distance learning with the arrival of the pandemic, and before the schools’ more focused efforts on and larger investments in supporting remote classes this fall.”