Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Boston Globe: "Some parents are revolting against classroom screen time"

"How much screen time is too much? Especially at school?

Many parents fretting about the hold technology has over their kids’ every moment now say the less, the better.

In Cambridge, where debate over the merits of screens has been especially pitched this year, school officials have batted around the idea of a ban, at least until third grade.

Now a new study offers a glimpse, however limited, at the role screen time is playing in a child’s life during the hours when they’re at school, be it 6-year-olds tapping away on math games during class, or teenagers hacking their Chromebooks to text their friends.

It is just a small portion of the life of a child, who may spend hours a day engaging with a screen of one kind or another. It did not, for example, address the use of cellphones, a primary way many kids absorb screen-based content. Nor did it assess the district’s decision last year to ban the use of the phones during school days — and what impact that might be having on how kids use, or misuse, school-issued devices."
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