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Theo's avatar

Yes! Please have a chapter explaining why District 65 gives my 8 year old a frickin iPad which he only seems to use to watch youtube shorts. And an appendix with the email from the principal of his school that asked parents to tell their kids not to use their iPads on the playground before school because they were getting dirty and we would have to pay for their replacement if they broke!

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Steve D's avatar

This is driving me and my wife insane. Our second grader has been able, during the school day, to successfully google "Riz lines wallpaper" (he has no idea what this means). Some of the search results were unbelievably inappropriate.

I'm a public educator at the high school level and began my career long before student iPads (or laptops). I find very little of educational value in them, even for my juniors. Why we are using them to teach elementary students is beyond me. In fact, I think it borders on educational malpractice.

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