That's a loaded question around here! My youngest is in 4th grade - is that "younger" enough? Overall, it's okay. Not amazing, not awful. The teachers are great.
DD has a strange situation this year because she has been in a Montessori school but made a switch to a traditional classroom. She is also dyslexic (lots of hard work and support from her tutor over the last 2 years has resulted in at-grade level reading). I provide support at home with interpreting directions, spelling, oh, how atrocious her spelling is and teaching her how to study. It takes more of my time than I had originally anticipated but I hope I'm setting her up to fly later in the year. She has holes for sure but she's filling them in along the way with an amazing amount of hard work. School will never come easy for her but I'm starting to think she will ultimately succeed. Our private school is open but we chose virtual for the fall. Unless things get really bad, she will go into the classroom in January, where they are doing a great job of masking, distancing and ventilating to decrease transmission risk. She still works with her tutor twice a week.
It's interesting how distance learning makes spotting our kids' academic weak spots much easier. We've discovered several areas where DS2 (6th) is lacking knowledge or skill but he doesn't have any learning challenges to explain it. Past teachers always told us he was doing well. It's a combination of his dislike of school and an absence of accountability in a standards grading district. He did move from public to private so curriculum and expectations are different. While I never anticipated being so directly involved in his day-to-day learning, I am glad to know where he needs more intense help so we can move to provide it. We are so fortunate that my mom started coming over a few times a week to work with him. They work in our office with the windows open and masks on but he responds to her better.
Mom to Two Wild and Crazy Boys and One Sweet Baby Girl