Where/ how have dcps parents brought this up? PTA meetings? Higher level meetings? Emails to teachers? I actually know one teacher at my child’s jklm who is personally very against screens. But she is not in a position to make waves.
At a friend’s private, there is a parent-led “working group” on tech use. Anything like that make sense for dcps? |
I wrote one frustrated email asking aftercare to clarify their TV policy but have since let it go with both the school and aftercare. I don't love all the screens but my kid is generally happy and doing well in school and it's not worth it to me to make a big deal about something that is in part driven by differences in cultural norms. |
You can pull from your personal experience, however I am pulling from the 50+ classrooms I’ve seen or heard about. That is why I am trying to say it varies. If you are going to make an example make it real as well. No teacher plays MMCH 8x a day, unless they themselves love it or something…which is something else. That and number blocks is too overstimulating. I use low stimuli videos only, unless it’s indoor recess then yes I will allow Danny Go. Personally I use videos for morning meeting and yoga after nap on the daily. That is about 10 minutes a day. Using a smartboard for a timer and a schedule is not a destructive kids. I also have a physical schedule. If you want less tech and are refusing forest school you have to start with advocating for a smaller class size. Think 12 students in PK3/4. 15 students in K+ and each grade has an assistant. Teachers unfortunately don’t have enough time in the day unless you want to go back to the 90’s and early 2000’s where kids just got a bunch of worksheets. I can do low tech, iReady was a center. 5 kids in each center. 15 min of iReady a day. While whole group tech was 10 min a day. Yes it was still 2 hours ish a week. iReady isn’t a choice. |
Aftercare is just babysitting unless it’s enrichment or an outside program no one gets for free. Some schools aftercare is free for some and that version is more likely to just be playing videos. |
No one at all has said it doesn't vary, so I'm not clear what strawman you're tackling here. As to the bolded: just loud and wrong. I didn't include a single example I haven't witnessed personally. And this class had 16 students with 2 teachers and a paraprofessional. If the teacher is overwhelmed at those ratios she needs to go work with spreadsheets somewhere. Also LOL @ dismissing my personal experience because of all the "examples you've heard about." Can you hear yourself? |
PP. Our aftercare is not free. |
Yikes |
You implied it doesn’t vary by framing your example as the standard. You have less experience and no I have seen those 50 in person, the others are just talking to colleagues. I’m sorry you misunderstood. You are ridiculous, what parent has more experience in DCPS classrooms than a teacher of 15+ years. Kick rocks and scoot along to your forest school. |
But is it free for some people? |
Stoddert PTO has a technology working group that's been working on inventorying classes and grades, a petition showing parent support, and a screen minimal policy for the school. The principal has been open minded and helped facilitate logistics. It's just a start but each school has different needs and realities so PTO or LSAT can be a fruitful place to advocate for less tech if that's what you want. |
I literally started this conversation by saying that there's less screentime WOTP than EOTP, but on the plus side: at least you're not teaching logic! |
That is interesting. My kid went to a title 1 for early elementary and a non-title 1 for the latter half, and there is dramatically less screen time at the non-title 1, like "brain breaks" at the Title 1 were on screens, but at the non-Title 1 the kids relax in hands on centers, non-Title 1 has more hands on projects, non title 1 has more physical books, title 1 read books on the app, and many other examples like that. The number of apps used on Clever at the Title 1 was enormous, at the non-Title 1 it's only iReady. the second school let me kid use iReady for what seemed like almost an hour a day, and their math progress was huge (like 4 grade levels of growth in one year). I think that was only possible on an app and would have been much harder on paper. |
I’ve taught in both. Significantly more tech time in the WOTP. Kids finished class work faster so more time to be on tech plus a lot more writing and research assignments. |
Adults who brag about not reading is so strange. |
Teachers obviously have more insight as a whole than non-dcps teaching parents. I see your little ego couldn’t handle that. This will be my last reply to you, I want to contribute to the discussion, and this is really dull at this point. |