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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It does not seem entitled to ask for a school to have a no movies/screen time policy for early childhood, in both the regular program and the after care. Screen time for these grades just means that the school is being lazy.[/quote]

It does not seem entitled to you to tell people that they are lazy, because they are not doing their job in exactly the manner of which you approve?

I don't care about one hour a week. I would care if it was every day, but I really do not think that one hour a week is a big deal. If that makes me "not an entitled EOTP gentrifier", I'm fine with that.[/quote]

I wouldn't make a big deal about one hour a week.  But there are different ways to do a job, there is cultural difference, and then there is laziness.  Too much TV is laziness.

Is there any acceptable way to call out laziness without being accused of entitlement?[/quote]

Yes. It begins with not suggesting that the way that someone is doing something is "lazy" or "against our values" when it is simply a policy you disagree with and you do not actually speak for the entire group.[/quote]

How does someone saying that screen time in school is lazy mean that they are speaking for a whole group? Can't they just speak for themselves?[/quote]

I was referring to the "against OUR values" part, which the father of a PK parent did say. The "our" in question was not referring to his family but to the school. The parents of older kids who didn't have a problem with the policy looked at him like he was crazy.[/quote]

Obviously he shouldn't have said that in front of others, bad judgment. But I do think that screen time policies reflect what a school culture values. This is not about screen time at home--it's about screen time at school. I have been to a bunch of Title I schools that say outright in their tours, "we do not allow movies and TV at school or in aftercare." And those that do allow it should know that there are going to be some parents who don't want that. [/quote]

I actually don't disagree with any of that at all. My own school has a screen time policy that has been problematic for some parents. I do think that there needs to be recognition on the part of the new, gentrifier parents that people do not tend to respond well when you enter a school, start saying that the way they did things before you got there is not acceptable/lazy/whatever without really knowing that much about the school other than what happens in their 3 year old's class. When you're attending a school that many would consider failing and you come in and a once-a-week movie is the thing you fixate on as a problem, the people who are worried about the educational and safety issues in the classrooms are going to see you as entitled.

I am not saying that everyone behaves this way, but I have seen it.

I still have no idea what the OP was talking about about fundraisers and classroom priorities.[/quote]

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