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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If OP is only looking at PK, they will be fine at a DCPS or TR or MV8. Btw, my kid went to JO Wilson for PK and there was virtually no screen use. I am sure they use screens a lot in upper grades (one of the reasons we left) but it's not a thing in PK. The occasional dance video, that's it. No kids on tablets, no academics taught via app, etc. It was just songs and play and art and recess, plus like 15 minutes a day if small group time to work on pre-literacy and early math skills as prep for K. It was great. I have high standards for schools and we loved JO for PK.

Past PK, the picture is more complicated. I will note that when I toured TR4, I saw multiple classrooms of 2nd and 3rd graders all in devices wearing headphones. It was an immediate no for me. And they were classes with subs. I thought it was crazy that this is what they were doing on a tour day, but at least it's honest.[/quote]

Your past experience does not portray the current.  Central has recently passed down mandatory academic requirements in ECE which includes the use of screens.  Lots of title 1 ECE uses screens already for math and ELA.[/quote]

How about people's current experience? Which you also continue to discount in every thread ...[/quote]

How about people just answer OP’s question instead of all the posters on here who have no kids at either school, trying to convince her to consider DCPS schools.

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People are trying to tell her that TR stinks, to the point where nearby DCPS are more popular despite using more screens.[/quote]

Two Rivers uses tons of screens. Tons. Not in PK but after that. Actually, you know what, scratch that, there were still a lot of screens in PK, it was just a lot of videos shown to the class instead of individual devices. Those don't bug me as much but the way TR bills itself, I actually did expect less of that.

Outside of the Montessori schools where low/no tech is a central part of the approach, charters use as many screens as DCPS, in some cases more (TR uses more).

What people don't understand about charters (I certainly didn't) is that so much of what you learn about them before your kid attends is just marketing. TR is all marketing. Their admin are sales people. It is not a good school. Sorry.[/quote]

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