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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the open house I attended,  administration said all homework assignments needed to be done on the computer through google classroom. [/quote]

completely different issue for kids who have had years of OT and whose handwriting is still illegible, and can't find the link, but in the NYT in the last year there was an article titled "the lost art of handwriting" where a bunch of scientists argued that (if a kid is physically capable of doing it, and I have two who can, one who can't) it is an important part of brain development which I don't think ends in 6th grade.  When I read the article, I was actually glad that we tried so hard to hit this milestone even though we failed because apparently it starts and keeps some essential neurons firing for a while - remember, kids' brains are continuing to develop all the way through high school, just fastest in the first three years, and slowing down from there........... frontal lobe doesn't finish full development for neurotypical kids until 21.

We limit screen time at home SEVERELY for the kid who does everything in school on a chromebook............

and during weekdays we limit all kids (including out high schoolers) to homework assignments

and no one has an I Phone, smart phone, etc - too easily lost, stolen, etc and too much texting craziness going on

And yes, we also did not allow any of our kids to watch any TV until after the age of two

so you can make fun of us, but I grew up without TV except for 6:30 nightly news and spent a lot of time reading the newspaper, and I got to watch national geographic specials and movies we rented to see at home

did I feel deprived and bereft and somewhat out of the loop - totally
as a 5th grader, I used to read the TV guide summaries

Am I grateful to my parents - absolutely

can my kids now do almost anything with a computer?  program, power point, stuff I used to have to have secretaries do?  Totally.

I don't like the idea of technology all the time all day and we were not allowed to read at the dinner table

we have one kid at Basis and while kids do cheat on the no cell phone policy, you would never see a kid DARE to have their phone out at lunch, when it is supposed to be in their locker from the time they step through the door until 4pm when classes are over.  So enforcement problems?  Absolutely.  Mostly in the bathroom.

But I find the idea of a bunch of kids playing with their phones during lunch instead of talking to each other really depressing - the same way I get annoyed when someone is trying to talk to me and scroll through their phone - "multi task" a bit offensive and off putting, unless they have a kid who has gone AWOL or are waiting for an important message.

And my husband is a computer scientist........... and he helps me enforce all these anti technology stone age policies[/quote]

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