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Mum's angry rant over coronavirus school closures goes viral

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Mum's angry rant over coronavirus school closures goes viral
Mum's angry rant over coronavirus school closures goes viral

An angry mother shares her frustration with homeschooling on social media, and the video goes viral

VIDEO SHOWS: SHIRI KENIGSBERG LEVI VIDEO SELFIE VIDEO TALKING ABOUT DISTANCE LEARNING AMID CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK SHOWS: MOSHAV GEA, ISRAEL (MARCH 16, 2020) (VIDEO ORIGINALLY SHOT IN PORTRAIT) (SHIRI KENIGSBERG LEVI - MUST ON SCREEN CREDIT SHIRI KENIGSBERG LEVI / NO RESALE) 1.

(SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) MOTHER OF FOUR, SHIRI KENIGSBERG LEVI, SAYING (TRANSLATION PROVIDED BY THIRD PARTY): "Listen, it's not working, this distance learning thing.

Seriously - it's impossible!

It's crazy!

Straight off in the morning - it's only the second day.

Millions of WhatsApp messages.

I have four kids, may they be healthy.

Just imagine how many WhatsApp messages, how many teachers for each child, how many subjects per child.

I've only got two computers in the house.

All morning they're fighting over the computers.

One of my daughter's teachers is living in a dream world.

She thinks she'll get up at 8am to see him on screen.

8am she only just manages to roll over in bed.

Where do you get off?

The music teacher of my youngest sent over a musical score this morning.

What am I going to do with that information?

What, have I got some band in the house?

I can't read music!

Just one second let me pull out my clarinet and help my son with his score.

Enough guys, teachers, dial it down, lower expectations!

And all day 'How's the child feeling?

How?

He should draw a picture...".

How's the child feeling?

He's spending the entire day on his cell phone - he's fine!

Sleeping fine, eating fine - they don't stop eating.

How's he feeling?

Ask me how I'm feeling!

Falling to pieces!

I go from one child to the other - here's Science, here's Math - forget it!

And how am I supposed to know all those things?

Now our children will find out how dumb we are.

It's not right.

Really.

How am I supposed to know how to transform an improper fraction?

(mock fraction) And anyway I want to understand - if it's mock, so why bother with it?

It's not real!

Leave him alone!

What am I saying?

You've finished us off - it's only the second day!

If we don't die of coronavirus, we'll die of distance learning!

There you go.

Got it off my chest." STORY: An angry rant from a frustrated mother homeschooling her children after the coronavirus forced schools to close in Moshav Ge'a went viral on Monday (March 16).

Shiri Kenigsberg Levi from Israel shared her distress about teaching her children.

Lines such as "now our children will find out how dumb we really are" have seen parents that can relate share it across social media.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday (March 19) tightened a national stay-at-home policy, saying police would now enforce restrictions aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus.

The measures stopped short of a total national lockdown.

Netanyahu said Israelis would still be allowed to shop for food and medicine, and some workers would be exempted.

Israel has already banned the entry of foreigners into the country.

(Production: Roleen Tafakji, Mariana Sandoval, Pola Grzanka)

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