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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you'll find many parents care less about that than you do. As your kids get older you may care less too. Not that it isn't important, but there are a lot of other very important concerns and reasons to choose a school. People's choice of ES/MS is heavily driven by academic performance and feeder pattern (and obviously those things are linked), and behavior and their own commute. People who care about low screen don't necessarily care enough to compromise the other factors.

Maybe you're thinking EOTP DCPS wants to attract more high income crunchy people who fret about this kind of thing. But you need to question that assumption. [/quote]

My kids are middle and high school and I car very much.  My middle schooler knows how to game the ed tech to get through it quickly and not learn (click three times and it gives you the answer etc).  My high school has adhd and a lot of interests, which means he is always sneaking off ed tech programs to watch youtube videos on his niche topics of interest.

Please - textbooks and worksheets and my kids would learn so much more!

Kids rush through classwork to play the dumb lame free games they can still get on their school devices.

plus, so much money saved without paying for tech.[/quote]

Okay, you care. I'm saying lots of other people don't, even if they might have said they care when their kids are little.[/quote]

I think you have it backwards. A lot of people who didn’t mind some screens in K are really fed up with the terrible “Ed tech” that gets more heavily used beginning in late ES. [/quote]

I agree that a lot of ed tech sucks and isn't worth what it costs. But I still wouldn't want to give up what's beneficial about doing things on screens (even if the benefit is just that it makes grading easier for the teacher). [b]And I certainly wouldn't want to lose the possibility of technology stuff for middle school science[/b]. [/quote]

can you elaborate on the bolded? I'm asking because we are making the opposite decision - choosing a school that doesn't have technology aspect to science - I personally think that's one subject that needs to be either totally hands on - biology, physics, chem experiments or worksheet/textbook based (chem formulas). We took Social Justice school off our list completely because their science is all on a computer. [/quote]

I would be very happy for them to learn coding, and I also think screens have a role in bio, things like using a microscope with a screen attached so they don't have to squint through a tiny lens like my generation did. [/quote]

Oh, yes - electornic microscopes - great! The whole ed tech science curriculum - hard no. [/quote]

Yeah I can tell that the parents who are naively saying “oh tech, neat!” have not actually encountered or understood what is happening particularly in math instruction. If you thought that the no phonics thing was bad, this is even worse. [/quote]

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