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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a K teacher and can back up that YT is blocked on student logins but not staff. My students watch several YouTube videos a day--Sesame Street and other while kid-friendly shorts for phonics and counting, and sometimes footage for science or social studies. For transition I might play a fun video while students are cleaning up and coming to the carpet. They're not spending hours in a vegetative state.

If it bothers you, I would reach out to the teachers for clarity and find out what and when they are actually watching. Older elementary can figure out how to get around blocking YT, in which case you should be having serious talks with your kid about integrity.[/quote]

K teacher, I can't even get my _college_ students to care about integrity.  When there is a glowing screen nearby, kids are drawn to it like moths.  Even if you tell your own kid that YouTube at school is against the rules or bad for their brain or represents some kind of moral failing, they will inevitably be standing over the next kid streaming a bootleg movie at the MS lunch table.  I'd much prefer to have all Chromebooks live in classrooms rather than in student hands.[/quote]

So I guess we just give up then? Kids won't listen to parents so... that's it. [/quote]

I think PP's point is YouTube and other social media are intentionally addictive for kids, to the point where the people who created them do not let their kids near them. Would you expect a parent to be able to stop a teenager from using heroin just by telling them not to do it?

FYI my kid is in 1st grade and what you describe doing in your classroom absolutely does bother me. Yet, if I spoke to you about it, it doesn't sound like you would change your behavior but I'd be labeled the problem parent.[/quote]

What bothers you about what I described? Songs and an occasional video clip for ss/science? Before boxlights and Promethean boards, I did the same thing with CDs. We watched videos and film strips in school in the 80s. A completely screen-free education experience is not really reasonable.[/quote]

When I went to school in the 90s we didn't watch videos daily. We did watch videos sometimes, but it was a whole thing to set up the projector. It was not every day, I don't even think it was every week.

No, kids do not need to watch Sesame Street at school, that's absurd.[/quote]

Sesame Street *songs.* Two minutes of the alphabet song. You really are That Parent then, eh?[/quote]

And that's why I post on here about your incompetence and inappropriate behavior and don't say it to your face. Doesn't mean I'm not thinking it. Sorry not sorry you are addicted to using screens in place of teaching.[/quote]

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