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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ATS doesn’t use screens at all. [/quote]

Wow. Sounds amazing!! [/quote]

It is. No idea why APS doesn’t duplicate the model for mainstream schools. I think it’s more work for the teachers maybe?[/quote]

Is this really true? That they don’t use iPads at all in any grade at ATS? I’ve never heard that before, and the ATS website says students are issued iPads. So they just literally never use them?[/quote]

In ATS iPads are only for homework (something else that other elementary schools do differently: no homework). [/quote]

Again wrong. ATS students do not use iPads for homework. They do not bring iPads home. They use them in the class room.[/quote]

Just wanted to provide more clarification. ATS students use their iPads for[b] lexia, dreambox and reflex.[/b] The default is not to bring iPads home but some teachers allow parents to request the iPad coming home so that their kids can spend additional time on these apps. For lexia they are only allowed to use it for 20 mins a day I believe. Not sure about dreambox and reflex. I sometimes wonder who these ppl are on dcurbanmom that completely make up stuff. It’s pretty pathetic that someone would pretend to be an ATS parent just to stir up discussion on this site. Are people that lonely and bored?[/quote]

These are the exact apps every other elementary school uses iPads for.  Ours does not send the iPads home.  Or if they do, it just goes back and forth and is never used at our home.[/quote]

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