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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]

Performative nonsense. Regressive, performative nonsense. You are talking about people who argue that it is classist and racist to create classroom environments conducive to quality educations for all. "Equity" is apparently best served for low-SES and POC by low quality educational outcomes.   [/quote]

Not performative. I am anti screen.

I'm saying that when your kids are in classrooms with large number of lower-SES kids, or if your kids attend a school where many parents have safety and access concerns, you will be surprised to discover that many of these families don't share your priorities. They want their kids to have phones in classrooms so that they can text or call their kids during the school day for safety reasons (also because it's more convenient). You will also find families who are concerned that if their kids don't get 1:1 devices or dedicated time with technology at school, their kids will fall behind wealthier kids who have more at-home technology access.

And none of it's performative. It's just how people feel. It's a different set of priorities based on a different experience. You can argue with it if you want, you can call them uninformed or behind the times, but if the majority of parents at your school feel this way, you aren't winning any debates over screens in classrooms.

Except for a small number of public MSs and HSs in DC, there will be a substantial number of families at any given school who have this position. It's one of the reasons DCI is so screen heavy -- lots of DCI families actively want more tech in schools and even viewed that as a selling point for the school originally. There is a divide between the upper-SES, mostly white and Asian families who have come to believe too much tech is a negative, and lower-SES, mostly black families who view it as an important safety and equity concern for kids to have more and better access to tech.

This is why we are moving out of DC for MS and HS.[/quote]

You sound like a well meaning UMC white lady. No clue where you are getting your information from but FFS, temper your liberal guilt and use your brain. The safety argument is NOT an at-risk POC concern. That's something Lululemon wearing rich white folks argue. Ironically because your snowflakes have to [GASP] be in a classroom with these low SES kids you performatively care about. For the at-risk populations you're bending over backwards to "be allies with", schools are probably the safest environment for our kids.

I'm guessing you don't have any friends who are POC, so let me be that friend for you. It is NOT racist to call BS or tell someone their argument makes no sense, even if they are black! [/quote]

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