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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anybody share if their elementary students in other districts have devices?[/quote]

Alexandria City, Fairfax County, Loudoun County, and Prince William County all use devices in their public elementary schools.  I am not sure about Falls Church City.  In many of these schools, the devices contain the “electronic textbooks” which are essential (because paper textbooks are being phased out - or already were phased out - at least for some subjects in some grades).  Devices might be Chromebooks or laptops, depending on which school or school system.  Degree of use varies from system to system, from school to school, and sometimes even from one teacher to another teacher.  For example, I know at least a few teachers in FCPS try to reduce use of devices in their own taught classes to the minimum required by FCPS, while other teachers in the same elementary school rely on devices more extensively.

Many privates also have devices in elementary, but there is wide variation among private schools in how/when devices are used.  So one would need to explore private schools one by one to evaluate this.  Most Montessori schools actively limit device use to their “computer class”, which might be held once or twice a week and then only for maybe 30-60 minutes each time.  [/quote]

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