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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please point me to the parents who are politically organizing around this issue? We have local elections in a year. I want to join in.

Same. The poster who said screens are here to stay does not understand the power of the people. In a few years, people will look back at all the tech in schools and think, "what were we doing?" A bit like how there used to be smoking places in schools too.

MCPS parents are never going to agree on social studies and science textbooks. We might have managed it before we cowed to religious conservatives, but it’ll never happen now.

If Taylor can ram the regional model up everyone's behinds he can choose textbooks smh

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please point me to the parents who are politically organizing around this issue? We have local elections in a year. I want to join in.

Same. The poster who said screens are here to stay does not understand the power of the people. In a few years, people will look back at all the tech in schools and think, "what were we doing?" A bit like how there used to be smoking places in schools too.

MCPS parents are never going to agree on social studies and science textbooks. We might have managed it before we cowed to religious conservatives, but it’ll never happen now.

Anonymous wrote:Do the complaining parents donate copy paper to their kids’ classrooms?

Paper isn’t even the issue at my school. It’s that there are 1000 students and two copy machines.

Usually, only one copy machine works. If I want to make copies, I need to get to my school by 7 AM. At 7:20 AM, there is already a line of 5-6 teachers. If I decide to wait until after school, there’s often a line until 4 pm.

Last week, both copiers were broken. One was fixed on Friday.

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please point me to the parents who are politically organizing around this issue? We have local elections in a year. I want to join in.

I don't know about politically organizing or not, but I recently discovered that MCCPTA has a tech committee and got on their listserv... decreasing overuse of technology in schools seems to be one of the topics there is some interest/action around but I am too new to it to really say anything more than that

I hate whiteboards for read alouds, they are terrible. I have noticed their use is highly dependent on the teacher. Plenty of elementary teachers still do class read alouds without them and use traditional books. Some teachers, though, are dependent on the technology for everything and I hate it. They would keep the kids on chromebooks 24-7 (with headphones) if they could and it drives me nuts.

Do the complaining parents donate copy paper to their kids’ classrooms?

Anonymous wrote:Private

Private school still have smartboards. My two youngest were in private for years (1 pre-k to 5th, the other 4-8).

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please point me to the parents who are politically organizing around this issue? We have local elections in a year. I want to join in.

Same. The poster who said screens are here to stay does not understand the power of the people. In a few years, people will look back at all the tech in schools and think, "what were we doing?" A bit like how there used to be smoking places in schools too.