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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worry about this too but I'd also take what your son says with a grain of salt. My kid has very restricted screen time at home, so when they do things like watch a movie or use Chrome books at school, it's always VERY top of mind for her and will be the first thing she tells me. This is especially true when they give the kids screen time as a reward for something.

But I've talked to the teachers and I know they aren't actually on screens all day. The [b]Chrome books in their classroom are one of 8 centers they rotate through[/b] and the others are hands on or book based. The YouTube videos are usually one of a handful of teaching videos the teachers use for their welcome song or a phonics program they are doing this year -- it's a very small part of the day, maybe 5 total minutes of YouTube videos each day (I've seen the videos, they are cute and the phonics ones are genuinely helping my kid learn letter combinations). I know the teachers do read alongs, and they also have regular class visits to the school library and periodic field trips to the neighborhood library. They are supplementing with those read along videos, which are also a part of the centers OR something the teachers use if they are short staffed or someone is sick and can't project when they read (very relevant this fall with everything going around).

Yes, if you talk to my kid it sounds like they do nothing but screens all day. In reality, she's getting between 15 and 60 minutes of screen time on a given day, and the 60 minute days are outliers when they are given a movie as a treat or there is a staffing issue. The rest of the day is spent singing songs, practicing reading actual books, doing math out of books, arts and crafts, etc. I know because I've seen the results of all these things too, even if my DD only remembers to tell me that they got to watch a movie during lunch that day as a reward for earning a certain number of points as a class. I know they earned those points mostly doing stuff that doesn't involve screens.[/quote]

Does your child go to MCPS? The bolded surprises me - don't they all have their own Chromebooks?[/quote]

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