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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone who feels their school does a good job minimizing tech (at least for ECE and early elementary) please share its name? [/quote]

No such public school exists. You need to pay for Washington Waldorf.[/quote]

Look at the Montessori schools. A Certified Montessori school (ask schools about their certification on tours) cannot really use screens and maintain their certified status in ECE and lower primary. Breakthrough and Lee both cited this as the reason for lower test scores when I asked.

All of the DCPS schools have Smart Boards in the classroom, even in ECE, and how much those screens are used will depend on the individual teachers. Common sense tells me that the quality of screentime will also depend on the teacher.

All kids do some iReady prep so you do have to go private to have fully zero screen time.[/quote]

Kids in Montessori use computers so infrequently that it becomes a disadvantage during standardized tests because they don't know where the keys on the keyboard are! They are really bad at typing. I guess that's one (and possibly the only) disadvantage of being anti-screen. [/quote]

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