There’s an old saying in Santa Barbara: Keep LA 100 Miles Away.
…unless it’s about tech policy at schools.
The conversations surrounding how iPads are used at Santa Barbara Unified schools and the privacy and child development issues associated with them all came to a fever pitch last evening at the district’s board meeting.
Parents’ demands? Adopt the same tech-use policy as the Los Angeles Unified School District and fix the security issues in district-issued devices.
“What LA has done was striking,” said Casey Hare, a parent who worked with Techwise SB. “We could have been a leader here, but we didn’t do it…LA has shown us the way. LA has shown us what we could not do, even though we knew the right path multiple years ago.”
They were there…
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