EdTech Transparency

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Anonymous wrote:Since there are accommodations for lots of things, why can’t my kid get one since he has issues with staying on task when on a laptop?? And I know he is not alone.

It doesn’t really matter. Teachers are not prepared to teach without devices and technology, they just aren’t. One kid having an IEP to not use a device isn’t going to change how the teacher instructs the class and interaction with students or the work they do. That kid will just be given some generic afterthought worksheet. Not only do devices need to be out of classes, there needs to be a systematic change to how teachers are teaching. It is so bad.

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The resistance to change from teachers is so telling. They are addicted to edtech

Clearly you have an agenda to make such a distorted comment.

Leave our teachers and schools alone. So disgusting.

The numbers don’t lie. Kids are performing worse than ever. No one expecting teachers to make kids of crack head parents Harvard ready. But 70-75% of kids are not even grade level proficient nation wide. This is a huge number. Sure, there will always be some kids that are incapable of being at grade level no matter what. But for >70% of kids to not be meeting grade level standards is absolutely a failure of the education system, regardless of parents or what goes on home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since there are accommodations for lots of things, why can’t my kid get one since he has issues with staying on task when on a laptop?? And I know he is not alone.

It doesn’t really matter. Teachers are not prepared to teach without devices and technology, they just aren’t. One kid having an IEP to not use a device isn’t going to change how the teacher instructs the class and interaction with students or the work they do. That kid will just be given some generic afterthought worksheet. Not only do devices need to be out of classes, there needs to be a systematic change to how teachers are teaching. It is so bad.

+1000

The resistance to change from teachers is so telling. They are addicted to edtech

Clearly you have an agenda to make such a distorted comment.

Leave our teachers and schools alone. So disgusting.

The numbers don’t lie. Kids are performing worse than ever. No one expecting teachers to make kids of crack head parents Harvard ready. But 70-75% of kids are not even grade level proficient nation wide. This is a huge number. Sure, there will always be some kids that are incapable of being at grade level no matter what. But for >70% of kids to not be meeting grade level standards is absolutely a failure of the education system, regardless of parents or what goes on home.

+100 Reading and math scores are in free fall since the pandemic supercharged edtech. Why don't education leaders care?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Since there are accommodations for lots of things, why can’t my kid get one since he has issues with staying on task when on a laptop?? And I know he is not alone.

It doesn’t really matter. Teachers are not prepared to teach without devices and technology, they just aren’t. One kid having an IEP to not use a device isn’t going to change how the teacher instructs the class and interaction with students or the work they do. That kid will just be given some generic afterthought worksheet. Not only do devices need to be out of classes, there needs to be a systematic change to how teachers are teaching. It is so bad.

+1000

The resistance to change from teachers is so telling. They are addicted to edtech

Clearly you have an agenda to make such a distorted comment.

Leave our teachers and schools alone. So disgusting.

The numbers don’t lie. Kids are performing worse than ever. No one expecting teachers to make kids of crack head parents Harvard ready. But 70-75% of kids are not even grade level proficient nation wide. This is a huge number. Sure, there will always be some kids that are incapable of being at grade level no matter what. But for >70% of kids to not be meeting grade level standards is absolutely a failure of the education system, regardless of parents or what goes on home.

+100 Reading and math scores are in free fall since the pandemic supercharged edtech. Why don't education leaders care?

Money.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since there are accommodations for lots of things, why can’t my kid get one since he has issues with staying on task when on a laptop?? And I know he is not alone.

It doesn’t really matter. Teachers are not prepared to teach without devices and technology, they just aren’t. One kid having an IEP to not use a device isn’t going to change how the teacher instructs the class and interaction with students or the work they do. That kid will just be given some generic afterthought worksheet. Not only do devices need to be out of classes, there needs to be a systematic change to how teachers are teaching. It is so bad.

+1000

The resistance to change from teachers is so telling. They are addicted to edtech

Clearly you have an agenda to make such a distorted comment.

Leave our teachers and schools alone. So disgusting.

The numbers don’t lie. Kids are performing worse than ever. No one expecting teachers to make kids of crack head parents Harvard ready. But 70-75% of kids are not even grade level proficient nation wide. This is a huge number. Sure, there will always be some kids that are incapable of being at grade level no matter what. But for >70% of kids to not be meeting grade level standards is absolutely a failure of the education system, regardless of parents or what goes on home.

+100 Reading and math scores are in free fall since the pandemic supercharged edtech. Why don't education leaders care?

Why are all the smart wealthy kids still doing great? I’m not being snarky - I’m asking a serious question. The top tier don’t seem to have suffered under COVID. It’s harder than ever to get into a good college. Standardized test scores are still very high, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since there are accommodations for lots of things, why can’t my kid get one since he has issues with staying on task when on a laptop?? And I know he is not alone.

It doesn’t really matter. Teachers are not prepared to teach without devices and technology, they just aren’t. One kid having an IEP to not use a device isn’t going to change how the teacher instructs the class and interaction with students or the work they do. That kid will just be given some generic afterthought worksheet. Not only do devices need to be out of classes, there needs to be a systematic change to how teachers are teaching. It is so bad.

+1000

The resistance to change from teachers is so telling. They are addicted to edtech

Clearly you have an agenda to make such a distorted comment.

Leave our teachers and schools alone. So disgusting.

The numbers don’t lie. Kids are performing worse than ever. No one expecting teachers to make kids of crack head parents Harvard ready. But 70-75% of kids are not even grade level proficient nation wide. This is a huge number. Sure, there will always be some kids that are incapable of being at grade level no matter what. But for >70% of kids to not be meeting grade level standards is absolutely a failure of the education system, regardless of parents or what goes on home.

+100 Reading and math scores are in free fall since the pandemic supercharged edtech. Why don't education leaders care?

Why are all the smart wealthy kids still doing great? I’m not being snarky - I’m asking a serious question. The top tier don’t seem to have suffered under COVID. It’s harder than ever to get into a good college. Standardized test scores are still very high, etc.

Because of all the time, effort, and money the kids and their parents are putting into teaching/learning outside of school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since there are accommodations for lots of things, why can’t my kid get one since he has issues with staying on task when on a laptop?? And I know he is not alone.

It doesn’t really matter. Teachers are not prepared to teach without devices and technology, they just aren’t. One kid having an IEP to not use a device isn’t going to change how the teacher instructs the class and interaction with students or the work they do. That kid will just be given some generic afterthought worksheet. Not only do devices need to be out of classes, there needs to be a systematic change to how teachers are teaching. It is so bad.

+1000

The resistance to change from teachers is so telling. They are addicted to edtech

Clearly you have an agenda to make such a distorted comment.

Leave our teachers and schools alone. So disgusting.

The numbers don’t lie. Kids are performing worse than ever. No one expecting teachers to make kids of crack head parents Harvard ready. But 70-75% of kids are not even grade level proficient nation wide. This is a huge number. Sure, there will always be some kids that are incapable of being at grade level no matter what. But for >70% of kids to not be meeting grade level standards is absolutely a failure of the education system, regardless of parents or what goes on home.

+100 Reading and math scores are in free fall since the pandemic supercharged edtech. Why don't education leaders care?

Why are all the smart wealthy kids still doing great? I’m not being snarky - I’m asking a serious question. The top tier don’t seem to have suffered under COVID. It’s harder than ever to get into a good college. Standardized test scores are still very high, etc.

Because of all the time, effort, and money the kids and their parents are putting into teaching/learning outside of school.

But those people were going to do that anyway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since there are accommodations for lots of things, why can’t my kid get one since he has issues with staying on task when on a laptop?? And I know he is not alone.

It doesn’t really matter. Teachers are not prepared to teach without devices and technology, they just aren’t. One kid having an IEP to not use a device isn’t going to change how the teacher instructs the class and interaction with students or the work they do. That kid will just be given some generic afterthought worksheet. Not only do devices need to be out of classes, there needs to be a systematic change to how teachers are teaching. It is so bad.

+1000

The resistance to change from teachers is so telling. They are addicted to edtech

Clearly you have an agenda to make such a distorted comment.

Leave our teachers and schools alone. So disgusting.

The numbers don’t lie. Kids are performing worse than ever. No one expecting teachers to make kids of crack head parents Harvard ready. But 70-75% of kids are not even grade level proficient nation wide. This is a huge number. Sure, there will always be some kids that are incapable of being at grade level no matter what. But for >70% of kids to not be meeting grade level standards is absolutely a failure of the education system, regardless of parents or what goes on home.

+100 Reading and math scores are in free fall since the pandemic supercharged edtech. Why don't education leaders care?

Why are all the smart wealthy kids still doing great? I’m not being snarky - I’m asking a serious question. The top tier don’t seem to have suffered under COVID. It’s harder than ever to get into a good college. Standardized test scores are still very high, etc.

SAT scores have dropped among wealthy kids too - just not enough to gain widespread attention.

One subgroup of smart wealthy kids are the ones with learning disabilities. They never did as well as their smart wealthy neurotypical counterparts, but I think research will confirm that this gap is widening.

I disagree that teachers are addicted to EdTech. I think EdTech put teachers onto a treadmill they can't get off of. Change needs to come from a higher level: unions and central offices.

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Anonymous wrote:Since there are accommodations for lots of things, why can’t my kid get one since he has issues with staying on task when on a laptop?? And I know he is not alone.

It doesn’t really matter. Teachers are not prepared to teach without devices and technology, they just aren’t. One kid having an IEP to not use a device isn’t going to change how the teacher instructs the class and interaction with students or the work they do. That kid will just be given some generic afterthought worksheet. Not only do devices need to be out of classes, there needs to be a systematic change to how teachers are teaching. It is so bad.

+1000

The resistance to change from teachers is so telling. They are addicted to edtech

Clearly you have an agenda to make such a distorted comment.

Leave our teachers and schools alone. So disgusting.

The numbers don’t lie. Kids are performing worse than ever. No one expecting teachers to make kids of crack head parents Harvard ready. But 70-75% of kids are not even grade level proficient nation wide. This is a huge number. Sure, there will always be some kids that are incapable of being at grade level no matter what. But for >70% of kids to not be meeting grade level standards is absolutely a failure of the education system, regardless of parents or what goes on home.

+100 Reading and math scores are in free fall since the pandemic supercharged edtech. Why don't education leaders care?

Why are all the smart wealthy kids still doing great? I’m not being snarky - I’m asking a serious question. The top tier don’t seem to have suffered under COVID. It’s harder than ever to get into a good college. Standardized test scores are still very high, etc.

Because of all the time, effort, and money the kids and their parents are putting into teaching/learning outside of school.

But those people were going to do that anyway.

Well my kid is doing well because we intervened early on reading. If they hadn't been struggling we wouldn't have gotten a tutor. Wealthy families will meet whatever need there is and when there is more need as there is now they will invest more.

I grew up in an immigrant family. My mom tells me she never read to me (in any language), and I don't ever remember them helping me with my homework. I learned to read solely from going to school in language my parent didn't speak with me and became a voracious reader. Now there seems to be an expectation that if a kid isn't reading it's on the parents to fix it. Standards for what schools are supposed to provide in terms of reading instruction are really low. When we hired the tutor for our child, the tutor asked me what books the school sent home to practice reading. I had to say none. Our kid's teacher did tell us which books we should buy for our kid's level.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of factors have influenced educational technology adoption over the last two decades. Your complaints aren’t going to overcome most of these factors.

Curriculum is dictated by state standards, and a lot of states have had some version of “21st century skills” that are tied to technology use across the curriculum. These skills can range from keyboarding, to evaluating the validity of online sources, to learning programming languages.

Another driving factor is book publishing. Increasingly, textbooks are available only as interactive PDFs. Whereas schools used to hang onto hard-cover books for 15 years or more, now they must re-license them every school year. Also, school libraries are understaffed and under resourced in many districts, so teachers rely on online resources for research projects.

Accommodating learning differences is another significant driver of ed tech. As one example, offering speech-to-text and typing options can be helpful to children with fine motor challenges and language-based learning disabilities that affect spelling. Schools also rely heavily on audiobook programs like Learning Ally to help children with dyslexia and reading comprehension challenges access grade-level curriculum. There’s also the issue of differentiation. Teachers are expected to provide engaging, accessible lessons to the entire class. Even in private schools where I have taught, ability ranges in classrooms are broad with some children placing below the 10th percentile on standardized tests, while others place at the 99th percentile. As long ago as 2010, I had an administrator tell me “Just put kids on Khan Academy” when I asked him/her how to best accommodate middle school children whose math skills were so weak they didn’t know their addition or multiplication facts. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to use effective direct instruction and help my students. I did have a real time management issue, however, as I tried to prepare kids for pre-algebra and remediate third-grade skills inside of a 45-minute class period with no support from aids or learning specialists.

We’ve had decades of parent complaints about students inattentive students who refuse to use plan books not knowing the homework and parents not having access to grades. Schools have turned to off-the-shelf software, like Google Classroom and Schoology, to solve these issues. For equity schools then issue devices so that families have access to the online information.

No parent complaint about ed tech is going to do away with the factors that influence teacher and administrator reliance on that technology. Nor are individual public schools in charge of contract negotiations and purchasing decisions. If you have an example of a specific harm from technology, raise it with your school board or private school head. If they hear enough feedback, they may take steps to mitigate the more harmful aspects. But if you think you can complain to the point where your school won’t use laptops or Web-based software any longer, that’s an unreasonable expectation.

....and this resigned attitude is how we'll end up with AI schools as the public school experience

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Schools are already using it! We toured more than one elementary school that used AI for kids that needed extra support in reading and math. They literally got pulled from class, put on a small room with headphones and their AI program, and done. Schools LOVE EdTech. Parents complaining isn’t going to move the needle. It will take a mass exodus of kids from public school, especially the kids who have parents with means/time to supplement with them to make up for the school’s inferior job (and artificially boost the school’s test scores).

Wow. That is shameless. Are you saying they don’t have special ed teachers anymore? No aides in the classroom?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of factors have influenced educational technology adoption over the last two decades. Your complaints aren’t going to overcome most of these factors.

Curriculum is dictated by state standards, and a lot of states have had some version of “21st century skills” that are tied to technology use across the curriculum. These skills can range from keyboarding, to evaluating the validity of online sources, to learning programming languages.

Another driving factor is book publishing. Increasingly, textbooks are available only as interactive PDFs. Whereas schools used to hang onto hard-cover books for 15 years or more, now they must re-license them every school year. Also, school libraries are understaffed and under resourced in many districts, so teachers rely on online resources for research projects.

Accommodating learning differences is another significant driver of ed tech. As one example, offering speech-to-text and typing options can be helpful to children with fine motor challenges and language-based learning disabilities that affect spelling. Schools also rely heavily on audiobook programs like Learning Ally to help children with dyslexia and reading comprehension challenges access grade-level curriculum. There’s also the issue of differentiation. Teachers are expected to provide engaging, accessible lessons to the entire class. Even in private schools where I have taught, ability ranges in classrooms are broad with some children placing below the 10th percentile on standardized tests, while others place at the 99th percentile. As long ago as 2010, I had an administrator tell me “Just put kids on Khan Academy” when I asked him/her how to best accommodate middle school children whose math skills were so weak they didn’t know their addition or multiplication facts. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to use effective direct instruction and help my students. I did have a real time management issue, however, as I tried to prepare kids for pre-algebra and remediate third-grade skills inside of a 45-minute class period with no support from aids or learning specialists.

We’ve had decades of parent complaints about students inattentive students who refuse to use plan books not knowing the homework and parents not having access to grades. Schools have turned to off-the-shelf software, like Google Classroom and Schoology, to solve these issues. For equity schools then issue devices so that families have access to the online information.

No parent complaint about ed tech is going to do away with the factors that influence teacher and administrator reliance on that technology. Nor are individual public schools in charge of contract negotiations and purchasing decisions. If you have an example of a specific harm from technology, raise it with your school board or private school head. If they hear enough feedback, they may take steps to mitigate the more harmful aspects. But if you think you can complain to the point where your school won’t use laptops or Web-based software any longer, that’s an unreasonable expectation.

....and this resigned attitude is how we'll end up with AI schools as the public school experience

+1

Schools are already using it! We toured more than one elementary school that used AI for kids that needed extra support in reading and math. They literally got pulled from class, put on a small room with headphones and their AI program, and done. Schools LOVE EdTech. Parents complaining isn’t going to move the needle. It will take a mass exodus of kids from public school, especially the kids who have parents with means/time to supplement with them to make up for the school’s inferior job (and artificially boost the school’s test scores).

Wow. That is shameless. Are you saying they don’t have special ed teachers anymore? No aides in the classroom?

Kids who need reading help but aren’t special ed don’t have special ed teachers now. And at my school the reading teachers use Lexia (a software program, not AI) to supplement their reading groups. If a kid still doesn’t know his letter sounds, a computer can drill it as well as a teacher can. Letter sounds are taught in K and somewhat in 1st. If a kid doesn’t know them by then, the curriculum does not keep teaching them because the rest of the class is ready to move on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I also wish teachers went back to blackboard and chalk instead of PowerPoint, smart boards and dry erase boards. The contrast of the blackboard and chalk is easier to view and it is multi sensorial. This is an interesting article about the education benefits of a chalkboard- while I wouldn’t have been able to articulate this myself, it makes perfect sense to how I feel about it. While it’s geared toward college students- I think it is relevant to elementary as well

https://compasspubindonesia.com/blogs/2025/11/17/why-teaching-with-chalk-and-blackboard-is-more-effective/

Totally agree. There was also a study about how college students that took notes with own and paper instead of a laptop learned more.

Reducing edtech in schools is an important fight. No parent should have to worry about their kid being exposed to porn at school from another kid's school issued device, not to mention being forced to constantly use a distracting Internet connected device when they are supposed to be learning. Parents should not give up.

Teacher here and I am not sure why a dry erase board is worse than a chalkboard. I use my tv as a digital chalkboard. I have an iPad that I write that is screen mirrored to the tv. As I write all the kindergartners can see proper letter formation as I write without my body blocking their view. I can also always face the kids and correct their hand writing as we go because I don’t turn my back on them. I don’t use it for slide decks, books or any other tech except movement videos/ brain breaks. Can you explain why this isn’t an improvement over a chalk board.

It is pretty clear after you bother to do some basic research, which you are clearly not interested in given you didn't even bother to read the article

Did you read it? The first picture under the title is a kid on a dry erase board. The article never mentions dry erase boards va chalk boards. Only you did that. So you can continue to yell that no one is reading the article, but you aren’t understanding much about your position or the article.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I also wish teachers went back to blackboard and chalk instead of PowerPoint, smart boards and dry erase boards. The contrast of the blackboard and chalk is easier to view and it is multi sensorial. This is an interesting article about the education benefits of a chalkboard- while I wouldn’t have been able to articulate this myself, it makes perfect sense to how I feel about it. While it’s geared toward college students- I think it is relevant to elementary as well

https://compasspubindonesia.com/blogs/2025/11/17/why-teaching-with-chalk-and-blackboard-is-more-effective/

Totally agree. There was also a study about how college students that took notes with own and paper instead of a laptop learned more.

Reducing edtech in schools is an important fight. No parent should have to worry about their kid being exposed to porn at school from another kid's school issued device, not to mention being forced to constantly use a distracting Internet connected device when they are supposed to be learning. Parents should not give up.

Teacher here and I am not sure why a dry erase board is worse than a chalkboard. I use my tv as a digital chalkboard. I have an iPad that I write that is screen mirrored to the tv. As I write all the kindergartners can see proper letter formation as I write without my body blocking their view. I can also always face the kids and correct their hand writing as we go because I don’t turn my back on them. I don’t use it for slide decks, books or any other tech except movement videos/ brain breaks. Can you explain why this isn’t an improvement over a chalk board.

It is pretty clear after you bother to do some basic research, which you are clearly not interested in given you didn't even bother to read the article

Did you read it? The first picture under the title is a kid on a dry erase board. The article never mentions dry erase boards va chalk boards. Only you did that. So you can continue to yell that no one is reading the article, but you aren’t understanding much about your position or the article.

Chalkboards are have an advantage over whiteboards because there is more contrast so it is easier on people's eyes.

Not having the screen in the classroom is better than having it in the classroom because it means kids aren't watching videos (like the "brain breaks") at schools every day. Screens are addictive, kids know what they can do, and that is distracting. It sounds like it barely adds any value to your classroom anyway. Use the money to send home actual books

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of factors have influenced educational technology adoption over the last two decades. Your complaints aren’t going to overcome most of these factors.

Curriculum is dictated by state standards, and a lot of states have had some version of “21st century skills” that are tied to technology use across the curriculum. These skills can range from keyboarding, to evaluating the validity of online sources, to learning programming languages.

Another driving factor is book publishing. Increasingly, textbooks are available only as interactive PDFs. Whereas schools used to hang onto hard-cover books for 15 years or more, now they must re-license them every school year. Also, school libraries are understaffed and under resourced in many districts, so teachers rely on online resources for research projects.

Accommodating learning differences is another significant driver of ed tech. As one example, offering speech-to-text and typing options can be helpful to children with fine motor challenges and language-based learning disabilities that affect spelling. Schools also rely heavily on audiobook programs like Learning Ally to help children with dyslexia and reading comprehension challenges access grade-level curriculum. There’s also the issue of differentiation. Teachers are expected to provide engaging, accessible lessons to the entire class. Even in private schools where I have taught, ability ranges in classrooms are broad with some children placing below the 10th percentile on standardized tests, while others place at the 99th percentile. As long ago as 2010, I had an administrator tell me “Just put kids on Khan Academy” when I asked him/her how to best accommodate middle school children whose math skills were so weak they didn’t know their addition or multiplication facts. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to use effective direct instruction and help my students. I did have a real time management issue, however, as I tried to prepare kids for pre-algebra and remediate third-grade skills inside of a 45-minute class period with no support from aids or learning specialists.

We’ve had decades of parent complaints about students inattentive students who refuse to use plan books not knowing the homework and parents not having access to grades. Schools have turned to off-the-shelf software, like Google Classroom and Schoology, to solve these issues. For equity schools then issue devices so that families have access to the online information.

No parent complaint about ed tech is going to do away with the factors that influence teacher and administrator reliance on that technology. Nor are individual public schools in charge of contract negotiations and purchasing decisions. If you have an example of a specific harm from technology, raise it with your school board or private school head. If they hear enough feedback, they may take steps to mitigate the more harmful aspects. But if you think you can complain to the point where your school won’t use laptops or Web-based software any longer, that’s an unreasonable expectation.

....and this resigned attitude is how we'll end up with AI schools as the public school experience

+1

Schools are already using it! We toured more than one elementary school that used AI for kids that needed extra support in reading and math. They literally got pulled from class, put on a small room with headphones and their AI program, and done. Schools LOVE EdTech. Parents complaining isn’t going to move the needle. It will take a mass exodus of kids from public school, especially the kids who have parents with means/time to supplement with them to make up for the school’s inferior job (and artificially boost the school’s test scores).

Wow. That is shameless. Are you saying they don’t have special ed teachers anymore? No aides in the classroom?

Kids who need reading help but aren’t special ed don’t have special ed teachers now. And at my school the reading teachers use Lexia (a software program, not AI) to supplement their reading groups. If a kid still doesn’t know his letter sounds, a computer can drill it as well as a teacher can. Letter sounds are taught in K and somewhat in 1st. If a kid doesn’t know them by then, the curriculum does not keep teaching them because the rest of the class is ready to move on.

I’ve never heard of moving kids who aren’t grade level in reading into another room with a computer and headphones and calling it a day. Students this young who are having difficulty need a teacher who is able to interact with the student. This is a prime example of why some kids can’t pass a test.

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You’re a monster OP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I also wish teachers went back to blackboard and chalk instead of PowerPoint, smart boards and dry erase boards. The contrast of the blackboard and chalk is easier to view and it is multi sensorial. This is an interesting article about the education benefits of a chalkboard- while I wouldn’t have been able to articulate this myself, it makes perfect sense to how I feel about it. While it’s geared toward college students- I think it is relevant to elementary as well

https://compasspubindonesia.com/blogs/2025/11/17/why-teaching-with-chalk-and-blackboard-is-more-effective/

Totally agree. There was also a study about how college students that took notes with own and paper instead of a laptop learned more.

Reducing edtech in schools is an important fight. No parent should have to worry about their kid being exposed to porn at school from another kid's school issued device, not to mention being forced to constantly use a distracting Internet connected device when they are supposed to be learning. Parents should not give up.

Teacher here and I am not sure why a dry erase board is worse than a chalkboard. I use my tv as a digital chalkboard. I have an iPad that I write that is screen mirrored to the tv. As I write all the kindergartners can see proper letter formation as I write without my body blocking their view. I can also always face the kids and correct their hand writing as we go because I don’t turn my back on them. I don’t use it for slide decks, books or any other tech except movement videos/ brain breaks. Can you explain why this isn’t an improvement over a chalk board.

It is pretty clear after you bother to do some basic research, which you are clearly not interested in given you didn't even bother to read the article

Did you read it? The first picture under the title is a kid on a dry erase board. The article never mentions dry erase boards va chalk boards. Only you did that. So you can continue to yell that no one is reading the article, but you aren’t understanding much about your position or the article.

Chalkboards are have an advantage over whiteboards because there is more contrast so it is easier on people's eyes.

Not having the screen in the classroom is better than having it in the classroom because it means kids aren't watching videos (like the "brain breaks") at schools every day. Screens are addictive, kids know what they can do, and that is distracting. It sounds like it barely adds any value to your classroom anyway. Use the money to send home actual books

Chalkboards also have chalk and dust that some people are allergic to. My second grade teacher couldn’t touch the stuff. We used a lot of overheads in the 80s so teachers could write in color when highlighting and underlining etc. It wasn’t addictive. White boards aren’t addictive and even my color blind kid can read the white board colors.

No, I can’t just order books. Teachers are not able to control the budget of the school with the 50 bucks the PTA gives them.

You are stuck in the mindset that schools need to be the fix for societal issues once again. If screens are so instantly addictive why are you participating in online forums and using your phone/device to do so?