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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there any parents out there interested in organizing around tech use in MS? My kid is already mid-elementary so while I totally support any effort to get tech out of younger grades (solidarity), I'm also looking down the pike to MS and would love to see more focus on physical books. Also if there are parents on here with experiences in DCPS MS regarding tech, what can you share? Our IB is Stuart-Hobson, which I'm enthusiastic about, but I've also heard from neighbor kids that it's a lot of chrome book use.[/quote]

You cannot get “tech out of schools” any more than you can get tech out of the workplace. for example I doubt [b]you want your kid to have to hand write everything through MS and HS; [/b]and I doubt you want to block the use of the Internet for bona fide research and reading.

Instead of a nebulous and annoying campaign against “tech” you need to focus on specific subjects and how they are taught. For example, dig into how math is being delivered at SH. [/quote]

There are school that still incorporate a LOT of handwriting -- in DC that is private and parochial schools and BASIS and Latin.

DCPS students are being completely left behind and parents should fight this. I would join, but we already left for one of the above.[/quote]

My kids who have been through Hardy have had 99% of their ELA assignments all hand written. Once in a blue moon they have to type out an essay but only once they have hand written it first.[/quote]

Yeah this is not the positive thing you think it is. It means the kids are not getting substantial enough writing assignments that they need to type them. [/quote]
So all prior generations were not getting “substantial enough” (whatever that means) assignments because we didn’t type them? Sure, Jan. 
We know that the brain works better when you write with your hands as opposed to typing. [/quote]

[b]Look, feel free to have your kid hand write a research paper. I hope you know that is a very extreme position to take.[/b]

I mean, I don’t think I handwrote any significant assignment post 7th grade …

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At some schools it's not. At my kids non-DCPS middle school, he has had to do both (turn in a footnoted research paper that is typed, and also turn in a 500-word handwritten essay).

AP Test essays are handwritten.

so it's very important for students to know how to do this, have legible handwritting, and practice at school. It's not "an extreme position." A more extreme position is for a middle school to never require handwritten essays. and then send these poor kids into AP classes where they are competing with students who know how to do it. [/quote]

Actually most APs that would require longer free-form answers are digital: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/exam-administration-ordering-scores/administering-exams/digital-ap-exams/exam-modes

There are some that look like they have written short answers. My guess is it will be all digital by the time our MS kids are there.

Anyway while I agree that some handwriting is good, I don’t think that pushing to get rid of the most ubiquitous and helpful tech tool (word processing) should be done just to prep for the AP exam! [/quote]

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