My anecdotes are from before "distance learning" was a technological possibility, so I strongly sympathize with everyone dealing with this.
I was undiagnosed as a child, so when my mom put me on homeschool for a couple years she couldn't understand why it was so difficult. I couldn't finish my work unless she stayed in the room with me and made me focus on it, or helped me through each question. Since she had my toddler sister to care for, this was an impossible situation. Also, the work I was given was too easy and immature for me, so I lacked the mental motivation to finish it.
Mom stresses out now when we watch home videos from this time because every time I show up in the frame she sternly tells me to go back to my room and finish my work. She knows now I had ADD, but the videos make her look overbearing when really I was just a squirrel-minded 7yo and she was practically raising us on her own.
The best, perhaps regrettably, learning experience I had during this time was video games. The school provided us with a shiny new PlayStation [1] and some educational games I was required to complete. If anyone knows ADD/ADHD, give us a screen and we won't leave it for DAYS.
We had a little ADHD boy who would come over, and we would give him a game controller and a plate of food and walk away. He was in freaking heaven, but we'd have to remind him to eat or he never would. He had a lot of behavior issues in school that I did not because apparently that's a notable difference between male and female ADHD? I always had good grades and was considered a polite kid, but I often couldn't study or learn without someone sitting down with me and guiding me through things. Had I been rambunctious and loud like him, this may never have happened.
ADHD generally requires that extra help. I needed one-on-one with an educator to really get a grip of what was being taught. My mom is a gentle, patient person when it comes to educating kids, but not everyone's parents are. Some of my current coworkers have no time to spend with their kids at all and complain about how much distance learning requires of them. My coworker with high school boys was shocked by just how much work is expected of high schoolers now that she's their primary educator during the pandemic. As far as I know, none of their children have ADD/ADHD, but they already can't handle the workload.
Teachers who are good at their jobs (and not the many unskilled or overbearing jerks I got) or who really want to be are just not credited enough.
Kids with learning and behavioral disorders, I'm sorry you're going through this. Keep trying to teach yourself in ways that work for you! Discovering learning techniques that work for you will be more important in the long run than whatever your school expects you to learn to get the grade.
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