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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Instead of complaining here, complain to the school board. If they don't hear from you, they'll continue to buy iPads for the students and the kids will continue to learn nothing.[/quote]

They'll continue to do that no matter how much complaining a few informed parents do; this is increasingly standard practice throughout the country due to the privatization of public education.

I'm a preschool teacher. Our kids don't get iPads but they want us, the teachers, to use them to constantly assess the kids and take notes on them throughout the day. I refuse.[/quote]

NP here.

I also think the iPads in schools are a terrible idea that young.  Teachers do it because the kids love playing games and it keeps the 26 kids quiet and in their seats.

MCPS is giving all 2nd graders Chromebooks next year.  The kids have access to Google and there are no filters/controls at all.  All sorts of crap comes up.  Parents have complained, but somebody at Google must have worked out a sweet deal and they continue to add more and more Chrimebooks for the kids.

Technology is fine, but now when it's not well thought out.  Like those damn Promethean boards.  They take up a ton of space and can be hard to see and barely work about 1/4 of the time.  Waste of money.  What schools really need in K-2 classrooms is more teachers/smaller class sizes.9[/quote]

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