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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really think some parent are going to have to realize that with technology comes problems and some just aren't worth coming up with a bunch of interventions.

Kids used to pass paper notes in class. Or whisper in each others ear. Every generation comes up with a way to communicate during class when they are not supposed to be.

OP your kid is now a 4th grader. I'm sure this came as a surprise to you but welcome to parenting someone who is no longer a small child and growing up. Take a deep breath, because the ride gets more bumpy from here.

Math and literacy rates have been dropping every year since the introduction of smartphones and edtech so yes, parents are coming for your screens.

Parents need to be coming for their own screens and the ones they give to kids. That would do much more than trying to come for screens in schools. Try convincing parents that their precious 5th and 6th graders don't need phones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really think some parent are going to have to realize that with technology comes problems and some just aren't worth coming up with a bunch of interventions.

Kids used to pass paper notes in class. Or whisper in each others ear. Every generation comes up with a way to communicate during class when they are not supposed to be.

OP your kid is now a 4th grader. I'm sure this came as a surprise to you but welcome to parenting someone who is no longer a small child and growing up. Take a deep breath, because the ride gets more bumpy from here.

Math and literacy rates have been dropping every year since the introduction of smartphones and edtech so yes, parents are coming for your screens.

Parents need to be coming for their own screens and the ones they give to kids. That would do much more than trying to come for screens in schools. Try convincing parents that their precious 5th and 6th graders don't need phones.

My 8th grader still doesn't have a phone. Im fighting with him for the school chromebook too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really think some parent are going to have to realize that with technology comes problems and some just aren't worth coming up with a bunch of interventions.

Kids used to pass paper notes in class. Or whisper in each others ear. Every generation comes up with a way to communicate during class when they are not supposed to be.

OP your kid is now a 4th grader. I'm sure this came as a surprise to you but welcome to parenting someone who is no longer a small child and growing up. Take a deep breath, because the ride gets more bumpy from here.

Math and literacy rates have been dropping every year since the introduction of smartphones and edtech so yes, parents are coming for your screens.

Parents need to be coming for their own screens and the ones they give to kids. That would do much more than trying to come for screens in schools. Try convincing parents that their precious 5th and 6th graders don't need phones.

My 8th grader still doesn't have a phone. Im fighting with him for the school chromebook too.

My kid only got a phone in 8th grade and it’s stripped down only to allow calls, texting and maps.

His screen time comes from McPS and that stupid Chromebook they spend all day on. I did ask one of the MS teachers and she said she could take the Hw assignments as hard copies if we preferred to keep our kid on the Chromebook less (it’s hard to tell how much homework time is truly homework time because my kid also gets these Google sheets and knows how to get around the McPS restrictions to play games. So one could ask

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ha! This is such old news. My high school junior did this in 3rd grade.. When I realized how much of his day was wasted goofing around on a Chromebook, I enrolled him in private school that used textbooks and workbooks. They actually went through each textbook and workbook cover to cover sequentially so it was so easy to know what your child was studying and what they were going to study next. It was a religious school but it was the cheapest private school we could find near us and we aren’t even religious.

Best thing ever for him to spend 4th-8th grade at a school with very little technology and where phones were banned except from when the final bell rang to 10 minutes after pickup so students could connect with parents picking up or letting parents know if they were staying for aftercare. Any other time any adult saw a phone it was immediately confiscated.

They really need to bring back textbooks and workbooks! It is so much easier to track assignments and tell how much work your child is doing in class.

Textbooks and workbooks are great for the average student, but don’t work for most MCPS classrooms where differentiation is required. It negatively impacts the advanced learners as much as the student who is struggling. Purely from the standpoint of a teacher whose rosters are 25% twice exceptional learners, textbooks and workbooks would not serve a quarter of my students. Those students would be visually singled out with photocopied classwork while everyone else worked in a bound copy.

I wonder how we did this before computers existed. Let me see. You could put kids in different classrooms the way we did in the Silicon Valley when computers were being created? You could provide extra support to bring kids up to the same level? You could encourage less advanced kids to get more advanced by giving more advanced work and workbooks to kids that are father ahead? Why are we so concerned about hiding the fact that some kids have gotten extra tutoring outside of school and are further ahead?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really think some parent are going to have to realize that with technology comes problems and some just aren't worth coming up with a bunch of interventions.

Kids used to pass paper notes in class. Or whisper in each others ear. Every generation comes up with a way to communicate during class when they are not supposed to be.

OP your kid is now a 4th grader. I'm sure this came as a surprise to you but welcome to parenting someone who is no longer a small child and growing up. Take a deep breath, because the ride gets more bumpy from here.

Math and literacy rates have been dropping every year since the introduction of smartphones and edtech so yes, parents are coming for your screens.

Parents need to be coming for their own screens and the ones they give to kids. That would do much more than trying to come for screens in schools. Try convincing parents that their precious 5th and 6th graders don't need phones.

I can and do control the screens in my home. Can't control other parents but teachers can set a good example instead of a bad one. Take some responsibility for the addictive devices you require students to use ffs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really think some parent are going to have to realize that with technology comes problems and some just aren't worth coming up with a bunch of interventions.

Kids used to pass paper notes in class. Or whisper in each others ear. Every generation comes up with a way to communicate during class when they are not supposed to be.

OP your kid is now a 4th grader. I'm sure this came as a surprise to you but welcome to parenting someone who is no longer a small child and growing up. Take a deep breath, because the ride gets more bumpy from here.

Math and literacy rates have been dropping every year since the introduction of smartphones and edtech so yes, parents are coming for your screens.

I don’t think they are. When our magnet had Open House, parents were on their phones continuously. My students, in contrast, used pencil and paper to complete an assignment. They aren’t the ones addicted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really think some parent are going to have to realize that with technology comes problems and some just aren't worth coming up with a bunch of interventions.

Kids used to pass paper notes in class. Or whisper in each others ear. Every generation comes up with a way to communicate during class when they are not supposed to be.

OP your kid is now a 4th grader. I'm sure this came as a surprise to you but welcome to parenting someone who is no longer a small child and growing up. Take a deep breath, because the ride gets more bumpy from here.

Math and literacy rates have been dropping every year since the introduction of smartphones and edtech so yes, parents are coming for your screens.

I don’t think they are. When our magnet had Open House, parents were on their phones continuously. My students, in contrast, used pencil and paper to complete an assignment. They aren’t the ones addicted.

Your anecdote from a magnet open house doesn't mean that parents are addicted. I was on my phone a lot during my kid's open house, because there were a lot of gaps between speakers, and because some of what was said were things I have heard a dozen times before, and not particularly informative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really think some parent are going to have to realize that with technology comes problems and some just aren't worth coming up with a bunch of interventions.

Kids used to pass paper notes in class. Or whisper in each others ear. Every generation comes up with a way to communicate during class when they are not supposed to be.

OP your kid is now a 4th grader. I'm sure this came as a surprise to you but welcome to parenting someone who is no longer a small child and growing up. Take a deep breath, because the ride gets more bumpy from here.

Math and literacy rates have been dropping every year since the introduction of smartphones and edtech so yes, parents are coming for your screens.

Parents need to be coming for their own screens and the ones they give to kids. That would do much more than trying to come for screens in schools. Try convincing parents that their precious 5th and 6th graders don't need phones.

I can and do control the screens in my home. Can't control other parents but teachers can set a good example instead of a bad one. Take some responsibility for the addictive devices you require students to use ffs

The point of this post was not the addictive device it was using Google docs for essentially texting. Which is no different than kids passing notes/drawings and spreading secrets and rumors that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really think some parent are going to have to realize that with technology comes problems and some just aren't worth coming up with a bunch of interventions.

Kids used to pass paper notes in class. Or whisper in each others ear. Every generation comes up with a way to communicate during class when they are not supposed to be.

OP your kid is now a 4th grader. I'm sure this came as a surprise to you but welcome to parenting someone who is no longer a small child and growing up. Take a deep breath, because the ride gets more bumpy from here.

Math and literacy rates have been dropping every year since the introduction of smartphones and edtech so yes, parents are coming for your screens.

Parents need to be coming for their own screens and the ones they give to kids. That would do much more than trying to come for screens in schools. Try convincing parents that their precious 5th and 6th graders don't need phones.

I can and do control the screens in my home. Can't control other parents but teachers can set a good example instead of a bad one. Take some responsibility for the addictive devices you require students to use ffs

The point of this post was not the addictive device it was using Google docs for essentially texting. Which is no different than kids passing notes/drawings and spreading secrets and rumors that way.

No,.it isn't, and it is deeply distressing you think it is the same

[Anonymous]

What about people talking about MCPS has had textbooks and workbooks for the past three years. Those books do not come home until the end of the year but my kids do have textbooks and workbooks in elementary school. DH and I have been to open house and seen it for ourselves.