Area families adjusting to home schooling

So far, no decision has been made about kids returning to school in Minnesota or Iowa.

Response effort.

New on daybreak new on daybreak?

Students all across the viewing area are getting a totally different school experience.

The pandemic is forcing parents to become a?

Home teachers.

Kimt news 3's madelyne watkins explains this no?

Traditional approach happening in area homes.

She joins us live now.

Madelyne./// brooke and tyler.

Students are trading out their desks at school for their kitchen tables.

Of course some students might like not being in school right now, but it's bringing on some challenges for both them and their parents.

"seeing my friends and getting to interact with people."

"i really miss when we have pets and social studies."

Zack is a fourth grader and jacob is in first grade.

Some students?

Just like them?

Miss just being around their friends and being able to learn in an actual classroom.

Their dad, nick fernholz, tells me learning from home has been going well so far?

But he's also trying to work from home.

He says trying to juggle both the teacher job and his regular job is a little difficult.

He tells me what's even more challenging though is his youngest not fully understanding why he can't just go "there's been some tears around why he can't go play with his best friend.

So that probably has been the most challenging thing honestly overall from his perspective."

In an announcement last month, minnesota governor tim walz and an education commissioner stated that all public school districts and charter schools should have implemented a distance learning period by now... that's according to the minnesota department of education.

Live in rochester.

Madelyne watkins kimt thank you madelyne.

It's still unclear whether students will be going