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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just moved here from out of state from a school that was no tech for early elementary. I didn’t realize my child was on you tube until just checking that Lightspeed site. When the kids are using YouTube, are they exposed to advertisements?[/quote]

YouTube is completely unrestricted - just like you would access at home.

You can go into the parental controls and turn it off. The kids have found a few work arounds but it's better than nothing. In ES, if you kids don't need intervention, they spend at least an hour a day on computers with no supervision.[/quote]

This bit on no supervision for ES kids at intervention time is not true across all schools. My kid’s school does walk to intervention and everyone gets intervention at their level so the kids who don’t have any grade level skill gaps to strengthen all go to a classroom together and get enrichment extension from a teacher during the intervention time. Each teacher in the grade level is teaching at a different level during intervention time. It’s live instruction, no computers.[/quote]

That sounds wonderful. Unfortunately, it's not how it works at our school. There are a handful of kids VERY behind and intervention is focused on them. The others have time to do work (my kid has not brought home work all year yet it comes home graded so I know he does it) or whatever keeps them quiet. It's usually laptops.[/quote]

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