I’m going to say something from my firsthand experience as a mom: Schools have a terrible track record with screens. It tends to be adoption first, skepticism later (and then only maybe). That’s led to a generation of kids being treated as Big Tech guinea pigs and falling student achievement scores.
First, schools allowed kids to bring personal smartphones into classrooms like they were lunch boxes. Now there are school-sponsored screens and screen-based curricula. Some states are finally saying, “Enough,” but it will be a tough job for lawmakers to unwind technology that’s now embedded in almost every aspect of K-12 education.
Things accelerated during COVID. When the pandemic hit, our local public school closed its computer lab, issued my kindergartener an iPad, and never…
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