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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YES. Some people will tell you this is no biggie and there are bigger issues in schools, but it starts early. Schools need to support teachers to move away from this practice. Regardless of what parents do for screen time at home, brain rot shouldn't have a place in our schools and every little kid should have a chance to build the focus and attention they need to experience the school day. [/quote]

If you think we need to teach “regardless of what parents do for screen time at home” then you need to halve class sizes.  I’m not joking, the crap behavior from devices starts very very young. I’m sure it is easy for you to pass responsibility for teaching all social behavior on your child’s teacher, but this is a HUGE piece of why teaching is so difficult.

Your next post about behavior in the classroom will stem directly from the believe that teachers need to be responsible for all group behavior when many parents are giving toddlers, preschoolers and school aged kis ipads in all social settings.[/quote]

Yes this is directly related to all the posts about behaviors, but I never said teachers should be responsible for everything. Fully acknowledge that some parents give preschoolers iPads. But if you disapprove of that, why do we accept that they be on them in school? I'm just tired of schools—not pointing to individual teachers, this seems to be school-wide and district-wide policy and culture issue—concluding that [b]all[/b] kids need to get a regular dose of brain rot short videos just because [b]some[/b] kids can't manage without it. Or learning via tapping on iPads in kindergarten. Or being rewarded with watching YouTube after already spending hours on screens for test prep and testing (so many tests).

Of course, it's not just the videos and tablets responsible, but the idealist in me wants to think that school and the classroom should be a nurturing place for all kids regardless of what they are confronted with at home. It's not a surprise that the "behaviors" get more pronounced in upper grades. We didn't toast their attention spans and resilience – they never really had a strong chance at building that to begin with.

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