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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the people saying this is on parents:

I pack my kid's lunch, serve healthy food at home, and limit screen time.

At her public school, my child is regularly given junk food (like almost every day), spends a significant portion of her day on tablets or looking at a screen (they have even been known to show the kids videos during lunch), and also regularly gets screen-based homework (in lower elementary).

When I have vocalized concerns about these things, it's been made clear to me that (1) it is unfair for me to expect teachers to be able to teach without using junk food as an incentive or reward, (2) [b]it's elitist for me to want my child to spend less time on screens at school,[/b] and (3) it's selfish for me to expect my values, of healthy eating and limited screen time, to hold the day in a public school where many other parents don't hold those values.

So, as a parent, I'm moving my kid to a school that shares my values. It's a public charter and next I'll be told that I'm betraying public schools and teachers unions by doing so.

You can't tell parents everything is their fault and also they aren't allowed to provide input, and then also get mad when they decide to remove their child from your crappy school that feeds them junk food and screen time all day long.[/quote]

I’ve heard the bolded before and the argument made by schools is that low-income kids don’t have laptops & tablets at home, and therefore they wouldn’t learn how to use such devices in ways that will be necessary for them to get through life if not at school.

I am not sympathetic to that argument & refuse to have my kid use screens much at all before high school, so I moved my kid to private. [/quote]

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