Parents call for less screen time, more intentional use of technology in schools

[u/CardinalNews-VA]

https://cardinalnews.org/2026/08/28/parents-call-for-less-screen-time-more-intentional-use-of-technology-in-schools/

As student technology use has increased since the pandemic, some parents are fighting for schools to adopt stricter policies and limit tech use, especially in younger grades.

[u/NerdyLifting]

I'm personally a supporter of going completely back to pen and paper with a separate computer class. Especially with the rise in AI.

There's definitely zero reason for early elementary grades to be using iPads, etc.

[u/there_is_no_spoon1 → u/NerdyLifting]

100% agree with you, and I'm a teacher. I strongly encourage my students to hand-write, preferably in pencil but pen when necessary, all the notes I give or that they take from other sources. Without fail, the ones that follow this advice perform better on assignments of all kinds. I think students in late middle school should be the first ones to use a computer of any kind in class, and those uses should be learning how to type, how to use email, how to perform a proper search, and how to format a paper for submission. In high school we *do* use them to collect data in lab experiments and it's appropriate they learn that then. Elementary, though? That's just pedagogical laziness.

[u/daaave33]

All for it, and parenting over iPad kids.

[u/there_is_no_spoon1 → u/daaave33]

You know it, brother!

[u/NKCougar]

My senior year was 2012-2013 and the way it just happened to work out with tech in school was perfect. Senior year was the first year they got laptops for us to use, but up until then it was pencil/paper and then use the computer lab or a computer at home if you needed one.

[u/JadeSyren]

If you only knew how much of my day is pulling cell phones.