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[quote=Anonymous]People can say all they want about home life, but the reality is that the majority of writing happens at school or for school homework.

We are practically screen free at home (no iPads, no video games, family movie or kid tv show once a month during the school year? Whenever we remember, which is not often). DD actually hand writes letters to a couple of older relatives and enjoys corresponding. Over the summer she keeps a journal. But her handwriting really got so much better only when we moved her to a low-tech school. I recently saw the 2nd grade class do a project and even their handwriting (print and cursive) is beautiful. Yes, even the boys.

There were two other transfers into 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade over the past couple of years and those kids and DD have the worst handwriting of all the kids in those grades.

I know handwriting isn’t everything, but it really shows how much writing they do in class and for homework. I firmly believe tech should basically be nonexistent for preK-3rd years, so young kids can build a solid foundation (projectors and teacher screens are fine! Not what I’m taking issue with). Lower elementary kids need to be learning to read well and putting pencil to paper. iPads and Chromebooks can be introduced later. [/quote]

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