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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Putting small children online for 12+ months of “school” is gross. Save the children. [/quote]

So, all the videos, tv, apps are ok, just not school.  Got it.[/quote]

Well, FWIW, my kids have struggled extra hard.  Because up until this point, they never had a video game console, or a tablet, or a phone.  And they were allowed 30-60 minutes of TV a day.

Then suddenly, they are being asked to sit in front of a screen for 6 hours, and have the skills to navigate multiple websites and platforms.

It would be like asking to you to read navigate roadsigns in China[/quote]

OP again - this is how I feel. I have struggled my whole parenting life to get my kids OFF screens and AWAY from media. And now I have to sit next to my 2nd grader and say - keep looking at the screen. Keep looking.[b] It is killing me.[/b][/quote]

No, it's not.

Should school for your second-grader have been distance learning this fall? No, I don't think so. But "It is killing me" metaphors are particularly inappropriate when schools are closed due to a pandemic that actually, literally is killing people.[/quote]

Ok - so it's not physically harming me. Are people not allowed to speak metaphorically during a pandemic? Geez. I do feel terrible about having to force my kids to look at screens all day when every day of their lives before this involved me saying, turn off the TV, give me the tablet, go outside and play! My kids can do it, but I hate having them have to do it.[/quote]

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