Screen time limit implementation: high school
Hi everyone,
High school teacher here. My school is trying to implement the screentime limits this year and it's very frustrating. We have 600 minutes a week which is shared between subjects. Here are some of the more annoying parts:
Our school does things like Leader in Me and IXL. These eat into our minutes for the week and are not excluded.
Apparently the district is gathering data and tracking whenever students use their SSO. That counts as screen time. This includes students checking their school email and Schoology at home
I have classes without textbooks. The school never assigned them. Have no idea what we're gonna do there. We used to use an Open Stax book.
I used to make a bunch of paper copies. Our school never has paper for teachers (and yet enough to print out thousands of flyers for back to school night). Also right now the majority of our copiers either have no toner or are just straight up broken. All teachers are sharing one copier
I have an AP class. College Board counts as screen time.
Most importantly, I see so many parents loving the new screen time policy. I get it. I have young kids. But this is high school. It's my job to prepare kids for life after school. This could be work or college. But the rest of the world is not going back to paper and pencil. It's going the opposite direction. I also didn't have screens when I was in high school. But i also didn't have a cell phone at all. My parents did taxes on paper. My aunt who studied graphic designed worked with scissors and paint. My dad taught me how to use an accounting calculator because he said it would be a vital skill. The world is not the same now.
The cherry on the cake is we were told this the day before school started
Would love to hear people's thoughts