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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up watching TV all the time in the late 90s - early 2000s and I turned out fine as an adult.[/quote]

Not the same. At all. [/quote]

Agreed. I teach kindergarten and the longest attention span for any kid’s movie is about 15 minutes. Kids can’t even get halfway through a Disney or kid’s movie anymore. They can’t follow a plot. They rarely read for fun. I’ve had grades 3-5 in the after school program for years and hardly anyone wants to borrow my books anymore. It’s sad. [/quote]

I found that taking away my kid's iPad helped her behavior and attention a ton. Have you considered not using screens in your classroom for a day to see what happens?

As far as reading, the kids aren't borrowing books and don't like reading because they haven't properly learned to read due to poor choices by school district leaders and the education sector. I know it is tempting and fun to bash parents though.[/quote]

I am not bashing parents, but I think parents (assuming they can read in English themselves) need to address these gaps at home when they see them. We are zoned to a district that gets top marks by everyone, yet my 1st grader and a number of others were struggling with decoding. Turns out the curriculum is not in line with science of reading. I purchased a phonics primer meant for home use and we worked at home until she was about to decode instead of guess. Kids do slip through the cracks, and that has always been the case, even before iPads and other poor choices made by school leadership.[/quote]

I mean you are preaching to the choir. We hired a reading tutor because my efforts at home were not helping and were just making DC hate reading. These issues can't always be solved by untrained parents.

There have been measurable declines in literacy over the past decade. This is on the schools. Individual parents can try to help their own kids but that is not going to measurably move the needle.[/quote]

I'm super-involved in my child's education, and I've worked her about a grade ahead in math by instructing her at home after dinner. However, I agree that the curriculum and teaching methods at school can be a big problem. The kids spend most of their day at school, and they're tired when they get home. On a good day I can get my daughter to focus for maybe 30 minutes in the evening, but that's the limit (and it's an appropriate one--she needs to be spending most of her time learning through play). But with a 30-minute cap, I need most of the academic work to happen at school. It's a school, not a babysitting service. Fortunately we have a really good school that has no EdTech and uses a phonics-based reading curriculum. It would be a real struggle if we didn't have such a great school. [/quote]

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