HS teacher here. The brain rot is real. Teenagers are doomed and with robots and AI the vast majority of our children will be homeless and delinquents.

FCPS is laptops in grade 1

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Anonymous wrote:I have this acquaintance who always said she works in education and sends her kid to a Waldorf school. Just googled to see she works at one of these edtech/ai companies. Makes sense!
Where I live, the options are no tech Christian schools where it is a MAGA crowd that left public bc they were spooked by trans bathrooms or covid masks. Or public where it’s 1:1 chromebooks. I am torn on how to oroceed.

What age for the Chromebooks? If it’s elementary I would leave.

Where have you been. All elementary kids get Chromebooks now

No, it's usually iPads for little kids. Chromebooks for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or even 6th, depending on the school district. I've never seen computers for K-2nd.

Yes, Chromebooks starting in 3rd. iPads for younger kids.
A middle school mom told me this morning that her son is so frustrated because during lunch none of the kids talk, they are all sitting there playing on their Chromebooks. Can you imagine? It's so sad.

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Anonymous wrote:I have this acquaintance who always said she works in education and sends her kid to a Waldorf school. Just googled to see she works at one of these edtech/ai companies. Makes sense!
Where I live, the options are no tech Christian schools where it is a MAGA crowd that left public bc they were spooked by trans bathrooms or covid masks. Or public where it’s 1:1 chromebooks. I am torn on how to oroceed.

What age for the Chromebooks? If it’s elementary I would leave.

Where have you been. All elementary kids get Chromebooks now

No, it's usually iPads for little kids. Chromebooks for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or even 6th, depending on the school district. I've never seen computers for K-2nd.

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Anonymous wrote:I have this acquaintance who always said she works in education and sends her kid to a Waldorf school. Just googled to see she works at one of these edtech/ai companies. Makes sense!
Where I live, the options are no tech Christian schools where it is a MAGA crowd that left public bc they were spooked by trans bathrooms or covid masks. Or public where it’s 1:1 chromebooks. I am torn on how to oroceed.

What age for the Chromebooks? If it’s elementary I would leave.

Where have you been. All elementary kids get Chromebooks now

Anonymous wrote:I have this acquaintance who always said she works in education and sends her kid to a Waldorf school. Just googled to see she works at one of these edtech/ai companies. Makes sense!
Where I live, the options are no tech Christian schools where it is a MAGA crowd that left public bc they were spooked by trans bathrooms or covid masks. Or public where it’s 1:1 chromebooks. I am torn on how to oroceed.

What age for the Chromebooks? If it’s elementary I would leave.

Anonymous wrote:I have this acquaintance who always said she works in education and sends her kid to a Waldorf school. Just googled to see she works at one of these edtech/ai companies. Makes sense!
Where I live, the options are no tech Christian schools where it is a MAGA crowd that left public bc they were spooked by trans bathrooms or covid masks. Or public where it’s 1:1 chromebooks. I am torn on how to oroceed.

There's a big range among the Christian schools, it may be worth looking around. We toured one that was pretty cultish and... dark. The first thing they said was that the world was fallen and they wanted our children's souls. Which... I understand that we all accept those ideas as Christians, but it was weird language and weird that they were putting that front of mind to educate elementary children. Ironically, we ended up putting DD into Catholic school, which is normally NOT my cup of tea in terms of ideology and values, but we had to find an alternative to public and couldn't afford the 30k+ tuition schools. We are not MAGA. Many of the parents at school seem conservative in terms of manners and childrearing, but don't seem to be Trump Republicans.

I have this acquaintance who always said she works in education and sends her kid to a Waldorf school. Just googled to see she works at one of these edtech/ai companies. Makes sense!
Where I live, the options are no tech Christian schools where it is a MAGA crowd that left public bc they were spooked by trans bathrooms or covid masks. Or public where it’s 1:1 chromebooks. I am torn on how to oroceed.

Anonymous wrote:It is funny that only the wealthy will be able to access tech free education. So ridiculous that we need to pay to have less of it. Ed tech has really fooled the masses.

That's how it goes - 100+ years ago everyone had a horse and only the wealthy had a car. Now, only the wealthy can afford to own a horse.

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Anonymous wrote:Our taxes are paying for our kids to get dumber and dumber. We pay for the Chromebooks. They spend the day watching YouTube and porn AT school. When is enough enough? Laptops and cell phones need to be removed and classes need to go back to the basics before its too. Any parents who allow unlimited computer access at home is just a lazy parent who is ok with having a dumb child.

Short of physically removing and hiding the school issued laptops, it can be very difficult to control these at home. It's not like I can go in and change the password.

What are you talking about?? You can indeed change the router password, put it on a timer, turn it off. You don't even need to lock these up. You control the wifi.

I'm not turning off the WiFi at 4pm dummy

There are ways of setting up schedules for each device connecting to your router so that the kids devices don't have access but the parents do.

Each router will be slightly different but in general, this is the approach:

https://www.techlockdown.com/guides/turn-off-wifi-at-night-on-router

Anonymous wrote:It's worth remembering how EdTech has worked out when people try to sell you on the next phase, AI. It's a scam from people trying to sell you something. Books and teachers work, the rest is bullshit

*nods grimly*

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Anonymous wrote:Naw. Screens are an integral part of our lives. They belong in schools.

Not going back to slate and chalk. Nope.

Says the EdTech lobbyist.

You know, the irony of your post is really quite palpable. Here you are, screaming that people who learn on screens will end up being shallow and dumb ... and yet, you make comments like this, which is really evidence of some of the laziest thinking in the entire thread. I'm going to guess that you were never the sharpest knife in the drawer, were you? Maybe you never rode the short bus, but it's obvious that textbooks and taking notes by hand didn't exactly make you an intellectual. What a dummy.