We came from a quiet little hills type primary school that I'm not convinced even had computers, down to a suburban type that told us we needed to pay for a certain Chromebook for 3 kids that the school could most definitely not assure us would be usable the next year when the twins went up to year 7 and changed schools. I hit "no deal" and told them I'd sort out Chromebooks for them, and went and installed chromium OS on a few old netbooks I had around. Got them through the year and moved them all to another school the next year that used regular assed windows laptops that could be used further than grade 6.
Grumpy old man rant...
In all honesty it was a bit of a culture shock. The little school in Selby was in line with my perception of a school, They'd moved from blackboards to whiteboards and had open common areas, but for the most part it was pencil and paper and a teacher at the front of the class. The new schools were/are heavily tech focused and went to lengths to tell us just how much time my kids would be spending staring at a screen in a big room with 4 classes and teachers sort of moving around as they needed. My brain couldn't reconcile all this, I'm not afraid of tech, I worked in the industry and made sure the kids had tech and could use it proficiently early on (with time restrictions). But in my head that's not what schools should be like and definitely not primary schools. Now between this and covid reclusive hangovers they all spend roughly 93.5% of their waking day staring at screens (the other 6.5% is eating without conversing or making eye contact) so I guess all my concerns were unfounded
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