The Challenge of Parents as Guide in Online Learning of Elementary School

The Covid-19 pandemic virus has changed people's lifestyles around the world, including in Indonesia. Among the changes that have occurred are in education, where the learning system in schools has changed to an online learning system from home. For elementary school children, it is a new learning system, and it does not feel easy because they do not meet directly with the teacher so that the role of parents needed as a companion for children learning online from home. When accompanying children to learn online, parents find it difficult due to various factors. This study aimed to examine how the challenges of parents of primary school children's companions in learning online. What factors contributed to this challenge. The theory used is the Technological Determinism Theory. The research respondents were 648 students of SD Negeri in East Jakarta. The research method is a descriptive quantitative method. The results showed that it turned out that the accompanying parents were more difficult to teach children in grades IV, V, and VI compared to grades 1, 2, and 3. The challenges faced by parents accompanying children to study: provision of internet quota, difficulty in internet networking, feeling disturbed in doing work. It is difficult to understand children's lessons at home, accompanying children to study while doing homework, the children have difficulties because the teacher sometimes does not explain the child's assignments in advance how to overcome challenges in providing quotas by installing wifi at home, if you do not know about the child's projects, asking older children at home or opening Google, then contacting the class teacher if the parents do not understand the child's lesson.