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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if you switched your perspective on this? Is it possible that the students were supposed to be writing an essay, creating a presentation, etc., and were sneaking around and playing video games instead? Does your child have a responsibility to be doing what they are supposed to be doing?[/quote]
There's a line of thinking that some of these video games are addictive.  A small group of parents in MCPS has been tearing their hair out about this for years.  Their kids have ADHD and are more susceptible to addictive behaviors.  The parents are doing everything they can do (meds, after school sports, consequences at home, requesting teachers to move back to paper).  It's one of the reasons that parents of means withdraw their kids to private schools.  [/quote]

So are you saying that these children cannot control their behavior in the presence of computers? And the solution to this is to get rid of computers?

[b]A simpler solution would be to give teachers back the ability to give students consequences for misbehavior. I believe we would see that plenty of kids are actually able to control themselves, when they actually have to face consequences when they don’t.[/b][/quote]

How does this work exactly?  In ES, a lot of the screen time happens when teachers are working with small groups.  How is the teacher supposed to be working with a group of students while simultaneously monitroing how the remaining students are using the screentime?  WHy can't they - gasp- just read books instead?

This stuff is built to be additive- putting it back on young kids to practice self-control is ridiculous.[/quote]

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