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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS is, in theory, 1:1 for grades 3+. That should be the same across all DCPS schools. Of course the reality is that schools have to fight for working devices and some schools are better at it than others for a variety of reasons within and outside of their control.

Grades 3+ in ES had Surface Gos, but I hear they're being phased out because they break constant (thank goodness). Laptops for Grades 6+. [/quote]

We're still in early elementary but this comment implies that the main difference is that the wealthier schools have more/better devices, but the reality is that wealthier schools have significantly less screen time because the parents won't stand for it.  We're at a Ward 4 Title I elementary EOTP and our neighbors who lotteried across to Lafayette this past year say it's night and day.  No "dance breaks" with KidzBop between every center, no watching movies during Music class, no watching videos of books being read out loud on a YouTube channel during library visits.

The only screen time for early elementary in wealthy elementaries is the mandatory iReady assessments on tablets.  In each of the 2 Title I schools I've been at, iReady is the least of it.[/quote]

This is not an accurate characterization of all WOTP schools.  We are at Janney and the classrooms have smartboards on which they do many of the above (dance breaks, book videos, movies in music class).  It is true that there is significantly less personal device use before 3rd grade, but after that, it is ubiquitous.   Some of it is teacher dependent and some of the tech use is better executed than others.

We moved from a Ward 4 school as well and found that the tech use differences were not as large as we had hoped.[/quote]

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