My kid watched that much in first and second grade at a highly regarded DCPS school. We moved to FCPS and it is much lower now. Mostly during parties / end of year celebrations.

Unfortunately too much. I wish they didn’t watch this many movies. Many parents brought it up to administration who did nothing even though they agreed that it should not be happening. To me, school should be where learning occurs the entire school day and is not just daycare.

0 at our FCPS elementary.

Movies, not many. But Magic School Bus? A ton. Apparently snack requires a screen sadly.

Is it during indoor recess or class parties?

1 or 2 at DCPS nw elementary school. After a day of cape testing and end of year typically

None during normal class time. Infrequently during after care as a reward for class having good behavior.

Anonymous wrote:Zero at PGCPS elementary.

Not my experience at our PGCPS elementary, and at one that is considered the best in the county (top 5?) I really feel like so much of this is teacher dependent, which is unfortunate since they stay with one teacher for the whole day (essentially). So if they are bad or lazy or checked out or whatever the case may be, your kid gets the poo end.

Zero at PGCPS elementary.

Zero. I'd fully support a movie night including families or something like that, but showing full-length pure entertainment movies during the school day seems like an enormous waste of instructional time.

I have a Kinder kid in DCPS, and I would say that he watches a movie about monthly, maybe more often. They have some kind of point system and when they earn enough "points" for good behavior (class-wide), they get rewards - silly sock day, extra recess, crazy hair day, pajama day, and movie day. I hear about it each time because he's always SO excited to have earned a movie. He does say they never have time to finish the movie, so my guess is they watch for an hour.

I do not love this, but MUCH prefer it to iPad time.

There was never any permission side to this, and it seems like the kids vote on the movie. All the movies sound kindergarten appropriate.

Personally, I'm getting involved in Schools Beyond Screens DC because I think this is all waaaay too much, but again, my beef is with the iPad (they also get to play games on it on Fridays! Ugh) and iReady and "brain breaks" that are supposed to be dance parties but are really just kids staring at a video on a smart board (just put on MUSIC for godsakes) and stuff like that. Routine screen "learning" and using screens for regulation (!!) is terrible. A movie as a treat for good behavior? Okay.

https://www.schoolsbeyondscreens.com

Is this DCPS?

DS just listed off all the movies he has seen and I was confused because we've never seen any of them. Toy Story 1-4, Monsters Inc 1 and 2 several times, Wish, Luck, Polar Express, Inside Out and on and on! I asked him a few questions and it turns out he watched them at school. The whole movie, not just 10 minutes during snack time and then never revisited. It's like 20 movies * 2 hours per movie over 2 school years, some of them watched more than once. They are watching over 1 full length movie per month? How can they have had time to watch full length movies when much of their time is also on iPad apps?

Has your kid talked about movies shown at school? I've also never seen or signed a permission slip for any of these.