Screen time in elementary schools

[Anonymous]

It’s teacher and school dependent, but the good news is that textbooks are coming back. All parents that are concerned about this should email their school’s principal and their School Board member and specifically say that they are upset about this. Be specific, if you can, about what you have observed.

Parents have a lot more power in this than teachers do, believe me. Ask your PTA to have the principal speak on the topic.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG just stay in your precious private school, PLEASE.

Stop it. It is cheaper than daycare. Also, I needed to work. There is no way I could have done virtual school with two grades with one being in kindergarten. I had to stay employed. I am divorced and ex and I coparent. Shut up.

FCPS was in person this year, crazy lady.

No kidding. But I did not know in August if they were going to STAY in person or have shut downs right and left. They were closed for in person school for a year plus spring 2020. I could not risk them going virtual again so my kids stayed in the tiny private that was started due to covid nearby.

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Anonymous wrote:They use their laptops in LA, math, SS, Sci, PE, and music. In addition, the teacher will show shorts and small movies as part of their instruction.

Teachers have been showing videos as part of instruction for AT LEAST a decade. There in 3-5 min in ES and up to 15 min in MS. It’s fine.

My 5th grader is on her laptop all day long. it's ridiculous. There's a youtube channel the teacher uses for math instruction. They do ST Math. The math "textbook" is "digital". They have "digital notebooks" for science and google slides for language arts. It is really enraging, to be honest. And my older dc had the same exact teacher pre-covid and it was normal school. This is all post-covid.

what school? this is awful.

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Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

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The kids have to take assessments in PE, too. Especially when they are covering health. They do the assessments online. It's not like they watch videos on their laptops in PE every day. Stop being obtuse.

My child says they have watched youtube videos in PE.

If PE teachers need to give tests (which I have never heard of in ES), there is no reason those can't be on paper.

The issue seems to be that no one is making any effort to reduce the use of laptops.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They use their laptops in LA, math, SS, Sci, PE, and music. In addition, the teacher will show shorts and small movies as part of their instruction.

Teachers have been showing videos as part of instruction for AT LEAST a decade. There in 3-5 min in ES and up to 15 min in MS. It’s fine.

My 5th grader is on her laptop all day long. it's ridiculous. There's a youtube channel the teacher uses for math instruction. They do ST Math. The math "textbook" is "digital". They have "digital notebooks" for science and google slides for language arts. It is really enraging, to be honest. And my older dc had the same exact teacher pre-covid and it was normal school. This is all post-covid.

what school? this is awful.

London Towne Es.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OMG just stay in your precious private school, PLEASE.

Stop it. It is cheaper than daycare. Also, I needed to work. There is no way I could have done virtual school with two grades with one being in kindergarten. I had to stay employed. I am divorced and ex and I coparent. Shut up.

FCPS was in person this year, crazy lady.

No kidding. But I did not know in August if they were going to STAY in person or have shut downs right and left. They were closed for in person school for a year plus spring 2020. I could not risk them going virtual again so my kids stayed in the tiny private that was started due to covid nearby.

Well you should have known, only about 100 emails went home about it - starting in the Spring.

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Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

+1

The kids have to take assessments in PE, too. Especially when they are covering health. They do the assessments online. It's not like they watch videos on their laptops in PE every day. Stop being obtuse.

My child says they have watched youtube videos in PE.

If PE teachers need to give tests (which I have never heard of in ES), there is no reason those can't be on paper.

The issue seems to be that no one is making any effort to reduce the use of laptops.

There could be 60-100 kids per grade on paper-assuming it’s one page. That is a waste of paper.

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Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

+1

they also watch the screen for the pre-recorded calisthenics and yoga moves

The kids have to take assessments in PE, too. Especially when they are covering health. They do the assessments online. It's not like they watch videos on their laptops in PE every day. Stop being obtuse.

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Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

+1

The kids have to take assessments in PE, too. Especially when they are covering health. They do the assessments online. It's not like they watch videos on their laptops in PE every day. Stop being obtuse.

My child says they have watched youtube videos in PE.

If PE teachers need to give tests (which I have never heard of in ES), there is no reason those can't be on paper.

The issue seems to be that no one is making any effort to reduce the use of laptops.

There could be 60-100 kids per grade on paper-assuming it’s one page. That is a waste of paper.

Education is not a waste of paper. If whatever this assessment is the PE teachers must give is important, then the use of paper is justified.
If its not worth the hassle of the pe teacher making copies and grading, then its probably not important.

Our school did not have 1-1 devices in any grade pre-covid. Laptops were never used in specials and only occassionally in the class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

+1

The kids have to take assessments in PE, too. Especially when they are covering health. They do the assessments online. It's not like they watch videos on their laptops in PE every day. Stop being obtuse.

My child says they have watched youtube videos in PE.

If PE teachers need to give tests (which I have never heard of in ES), there is no reason those can't be on paper.

The issue seems to be that no one is making any effort to reduce the use of laptops.

There could be 60-100 kids per grade on paper-assuming it’s one page. That is a waste of paper.

Education is not a waste of paper. If whatever this assessment is the PE teachers must give is important, then the use of paper is justified.
If its not worth the hassle of the pe teacher making copies and grading, then its probably not important.

Our school did not have 1-1 devices in any grade pre-covid. Laptops were never used in specials and only occassionally in the class.

Pre-COVID there was an initiative to get ALL schools/students 1:1 computers. COVID just accelerated it 2-3 years. It was the plan all along.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

+1

The kids have to take assessments in PE, too. Especially when they are covering health. They do the assessments online. It's not like they watch videos on their laptops in PE every day. Stop being obtuse.

My child says they have watched youtube videos in PE.

If PE teachers need to give tests (which I have never heard of in ES), there is no reason those can't be on paper.

The issue seems to be that no one is making any effort to reduce the use of laptops.

There could be 60-100 kids per grade on paper-assuming it’s one page. That is a waste of paper.

Education is not a waste of paper. If whatever this assessment is the PE teachers must give is important, then the use of paper is justified.
If its not worth the hassle of the pe teacher making copies and grading, then its probably not important.

Our school did not have 1-1 devices in any grade pre-covid. Laptops were never used in specials and only occassionally in the class.

Tell me you NOT a teacher without telling me your not a teacher.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

+1

The kids have to take assessments in PE, too. Especially when they are covering health. They do the assessments online. It's not like they watch videos on their laptops in PE every day. Stop being obtuse.

My child says they have watched youtube videos in PE.

If PE teachers need to give tests (which I have never heard of in ES), there is no reason those can't be on paper.

The issue seems to be that no one is making any effort to reduce the use of laptops.

There could be 60-100 kids per grade on paper-assuming it’s one page. That is a waste of paper.

Education is not a waste of paper. If whatever this assessment is the PE teachers must give is important, then the use of paper is justified.
If its not worth the hassle of the pe teacher making copies and grading, then its probably not important.

Our school did not have 1-1 devices in any grade pre-covid. Laptops were never used in specials and only occassionally in the class.

Tell me you NOT a teacher without telling me your not a teacher.

Is that supposed to be witty?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

+1

The kids have to take assessments in PE, too. Especially when they are covering health. They do the assessments online. It's not like they watch videos on their laptops in PE every day. Stop being obtuse.

My child says they have watched youtube videos in PE.

If PE teachers need to give tests (which I have never heard of in ES), there is no reason those can't be on paper.

The issue seems to be that no one is making any effort to reduce the use of laptops.

There could be 60-100 kids per grade on paper-assuming it’s one page. That is a waste of paper.

Education is not a waste of paper. If whatever this assessment is the PE teachers must give is important, then the use of paper is justified.
If its not worth the hassle of the pe teacher making copies and grading, then its probably not important.

Our school did not have 1-1 devices in any grade pre-covid. Laptops were never used in specials and only occassionally in the class.

Pre-COVID there was an initiative to get ALL schools/students 1:1 computers. COVID just accelerated it 2-3 years. It was the plan all along.

It is a plan that should be re-evaluated. ES grades do NOT need 1:1 laptops and now that they have them, they are.a crutch for bad teaching.

[Anonymous]

Upper ES teacher here who posted previously. I love that my kids have a device and I don’t need to check out a cart. That aspect is so much better. That being said, I was determined to go back to pre - covid tech use. Do my kids use computers? Absolutely! But it is for purposeful reasons. My kids are not filling in Google Slides. They have physical notebooks. When we do writing they are drafting in notebooks.

This is what I use computers for:
Research
Publishing writing
Projects
Unit Tests
Review Games (quizet/quizziz/kahoot)
Posted materials like primary sources or long articles

Everything else is paper/pencil. No ST Math or Imagine Language.

I will say the pacing guides literally are the same as last year. The resources are all Google Slides with type in stuff. I am lucky that I have taught this grade for many years and had things saved before the pandemic to go back to normal tech use. My school also wasn’t limiting paper.

There absolutely needs to be a balance with tech use. Some teachers are doing it and others aren’t. It could come down to admin or individual teachers but this is something parents should address with the individual teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

+1

The kids have to take assessments in PE, too. Especially when they are covering health. They do the assessments online. It's not like they watch videos on their laptops in PE every day. Stop being obtuse.

My child says they have watched youtube videos in PE.

If PE teachers need to give tests (which I have never heard of in ES), there is no reason those can't be on paper.

The issue seems to be that no one is making any effort to reduce the use of laptops.

There could be 60-100 kids per grade on paper-assuming it’s one page. That is a waste of paper.

Education is not a waste of paper. If whatever this assessment is the PE teachers must give is important, then the use of paper is justified.
If its not worth the hassle of the pe teacher making copies and grading, then its probably not important.

Our school did not have 1-1 devices in any grade pre-covid. Laptops were never used in specials and only occassionally in the class.

Pre-COVID there was an initiative to get ALL schools/students 1:1 computers. COVID just accelerated it 2-3 years. It was the plan all along.

It is a plan that should be re-evaluated. ES grades do NOT need 1:1 laptops and now that they have them, they are.a crutch for bad teaching.

IPads for PreK-2 next year, paper reduction, new technology, newer/younger tech savvy teachers on the way. Good luck turning the boat around.