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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's telling that many Silicon Valley families are raising their children in a mostly tech-free environment, including private schools that have banished screens. I think going forward there is going to be increasing separation between the well-educated families who are mindful and vigilant about the damage screens can do to neurological development in children and families that don't care or who are unaware. The ability to concentrate and read longform is going to be a prized skill in the years ahead. It's kind of sad that reading with your toddlers is basically tiger parenting now.  [/quote]

No one I know in Silicon Valley allows their own kids to use screens. [/quote]

Kids are using screens in Silicon Valley.

The Waldorf Schools are usually tiny and on par with being homeschooled.  It’s old hippy stuff and they don’t embrace change especially technology.

Here’s an example of how they view math -   [quote]The researchers found that in Waldorf education math is taught in multiple ways. Students move their math, sing their math, paint, draw and build their math, and it is brought into other lessons like history[/quote]

Their approach to learning how to read.  [quote]children build their foundation to reading and writing organically, learning letters and sounds through stories, songs, word games, and more. This low-stress, natural approach starts in preschool and is integrated into every subject, every day.[/quote]

The schools are usually too small to have much in the way of activities the bigger schools have the normal sports where any student can sign up for.  [/quote]

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