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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Glad to hear homework can be done off line. Do they insist that homework must be typed? I would want (at least in 6th and 7th) grade for DC to write out assignments. Also, why not have some more traditional classes to reduce the amount of time the kids are working on their Chromebooks?

As for letting 6th graders "choose" how to spend their breaks is one of the craziest ideas I have heard and goes against every recommendation of how kids should use the internet.  Such poor judgement just makes me question the administrators who are running the school. [/quote]

Not PP but I agree.  Someone above said something about "kids used to pass notes, now they email/text/facebook etc, somehow it's the same thing."  No, it really really is not the same thing.  I remember middle school and high school clearly and work in several now.  Kids may pass notes or try to sneak on their phones during class, but at break time we never "passed notes" or texted (it was recent enough that a lot of my peers did have phones, though not smart phones).  Break times, lunch, and before and after school were all about socializing, i.e. face to face engagement and conversation.  (And kissing for some couples, LOL!).  Kids at lunch on phones/Chromebooks, sitting at the same table but not talking ot each other or not talking face to face, is a nightmare in so many ways.  Yes, it happens, and yes it's increasingly common that people sit in restaurants and sit on their phones instead of talking to each other.  But it being common does not make it healthy, ok, or beneficial.

I really hope the administrators are listening to the current parents.  It's discouraging that they could be that out of touch to not realize the negative social and developmental consequences of such a policy and the (apparently minimal) oversight of student computer use in classrooms.  Only way to really cut down is to have classes where they have to put the chromebooks away, all the way away.  [/quote]

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