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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to concur with OP that kids can easily spend too much time watching you tube even if it is officially blocked. They have tons of work around that they exchange.

I agree that the primary control is on the parent, to explain the rules and remind their kid not to do the stupid things other kids are doing BUT it is impossible to police from afar. My kids do not have unsupervised access to you tube at home. They know it is not allowed and we only go on you tube together for specific projects or questions.

I have discussed this with my son who is still young enough as a 4th grader to be painfully honest (and will come home full of guilt and crying once every 2 weeks and offer  “ I am sorry mom, today I failed and I went on YouTube but just for 5 min I promise” - btw I am not stupid, I know in those instances it would have been more than 5 min). He is the one who alerted me of it, meaning tons of parents have no clues their kids spend time on you tube.

And that’s where I am mad at the teacher (and the subs are the worse offenders). It takes 2 seconds to do a lap around the class and check kids’ screen. You can see from the back of the class right away who is on you tube. Good teachers would enforce the rule. It would take 3 random corrections in the class  “Larlo, Larla, you are on you tube, you don’t get math game breaks anymore for 2 weeks you are assigned to the real book reading breaks instead” and all the non defiant kids would already stop going there.

But no. There seems to be  absolutely zero control.

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The only way to stop this is to eliminate all screens from classrooms. No Chromebooks, no phones, literally teachers use the white board instead of a massive screen.

I'm sure this sounds crazy and horrible to many teachers and I know the teachers can't control all of this. But these are damaging, addictive devices. At a minumum, none of them should be connected to the internet. It's insane the only place for kids to be totally screen free is summer camp. If they can do it, so can schools.[/quote]

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