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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would appreciate hearing details about the negative impacts of reliance on technology.  Could you please share more information based on your experience?  Do most kids tend to stay for high school?[/quote]

Someone else will have to speak to the negative, because it is a positive for us.  The kids have laptops.  All of them.  They take them to class and bring them home every day.  All of their assignments are tracked with google classroom, which is awesome for parents who want to follow what's going on (just install the app on your own phone).  Parents can literally watch remotely what their kids are working one every day, on their google drives, and see all of the written work assigned and completed, including the actual work product in process, through the google apps, with their parent password.

I have heard on this board that some people believe the laptops, which are linked to the internet, present too much of a temptation/distraction for their children.  But parents can ask school to block non-school use, etc, or monitor better themselves at home.  And kids who misuse the technology get put on restricted access automatically.  If you think your child can't handle having access to a laptop and internet on demand, then perhaps that is something for you to consider.  But honestly it has been great for my child and great for me to keep track of what my child is actually working on all day/ [/quote]

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