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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those worried about screens, there is a huge movement to scale back or eliminate screens up until high school. Not sure if/when that will happen or what it will look like. My guess is they'll be wildly successful for lower elementary, but until all us parents get off our smartphones, it's unlikely to happen for teens/tweens.[/quote]

The families fighting to get rid of screens are going to run into resistance from a large group of DCPS families who want MORE tech in schools and view it as a safety and equity issue.

If you have only interacted with families similar to yours at upper-SES elementary schools or charters, you may not realize this group even exists. But if your kid goes to MS and HS in DC, you will learn.[/quote]

If it’s the same folks who buy their kids smartphones at age 8 and give them unfettered access to TikTok because they haven’t bothered to pay attention to all the emerging research about kids and screen addiction, that’s unfortunate. It feels like those folks are all 10 years behind us and see the phones as a status thing. [/quote]

In some cases, sure.

In other cases, it's parents whose kids have attended schools that have had to be locked down repeatedly due to shootings, and want their kids to have phones so they can call them in these instances. Or whose kids have to travel through more dangerous neighborhoods to and from school. Or kids who are shuffled between multiple caregivers throughout the week so a phone is a practical necessity to make sure the kid knows who is picking them up or where they are spending the night. Or parents who genuinely believe that giving their kids phones and tablets at a young age will help their kids become native tech users and it will benefit them down the road in school and work.

Assume these parents are just stupid or don't care about their kids at your own peril. If your goal is less tech in schools, I would suggest taking a different approach, but put to you.[/quote]

Fascinating. My kid’s majority Black high school has a no-phones policy, and phone lockers outside the metal detectors. I’ve never heard any pushback about it on safety or equity grounds or for any other reason. [/quote]

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