Mom mocked after child’s kindergarten homeschool work confuses her

A mom named Melende has gone viral on TikTok after taking to the app to ask for help after not understanding how to do her child’s kindergarten homeschool work.

In the 2021/2022 academic year, there were about 3.1 million homeschooled students in grades K-12 in the United States, which is roughly 6% of school-age children in the country, according to National Home Education.

Many parents have shared their homeschooling experiences on social media, both to raise awareness of it and also to help other parents who are looking to homeschool their children.

However, sometimes it does not go as planned, which is what happened to TikToker Melende, who asked for help after not understanding how to do her daughter’s kindergarten homeschool work, and the video quickly went viral.

Mom mocked for being unable to do kindergarten school work

In a TikTok video, Melende shows her child’s Kindergarten homeschool workbook as she prepares to homeschool her daughter, and she expresses her confusion about one of the exercises.

She explained that the child would have to read out three different words and decide which two had the same ending sounds. The first example included the words rug, horse, and flag.

“Tell me if I’m either just dumb or just don’t understand this,” she said in the beginning. “Like it’s three different… what the f**k am I doing wrong?

“I’m over here trying to be a homeschool teacher and I don’t even understand it myself.”

She then said she might not read the picture right, so she moved on to the second example, which used the words kite, spoon, and sun, but she quickly claimed that “they don’t match”.

“They don’t have the same sound,” she claims.

The confusion continues in the third part of the exercise, where the words are chair, star, and box.

“They don’t end with the same sound! What the hell am I doing wrong?” she asks in the video.

Viewers beg mom not to homeschool child

Viewers were quick to head to the comments to not only mock the mom for her confusion but also to beg her not to start homeschooling.

One person wrote: “Do not homeschool. Rug and Flag have the same ending sound (g).”

A second person said: “Parents get mad at teachers so decide to homeschool because ‘it’s so easy to teach'”

“Signs you shouldn’t homeschool,” a third person joked while another said: “It says ENDING sound. Don’t homeschool.”

However, some people did help Melende with the work and explained: “They’re not asking for rhyming; they’re asking for ending sounds. So ‘g’ ‘n’ ‘r’.”