Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies

It’s not screens that are the problem, per se, but how they are used, and how schools and teachers were rely upon them to do every single little thing rather than using an appropriate methodology which integrates traditional teaching techniques which use technology to assist.

And they wouldn’t have to have the screen do everything if they were paid the appropriate amount given the importance of their station

It’s not even the pay. Every child deserves the education to be tailored to them but there aren’t enough people to sit down one on one with every kid. No budget meant no kid ever got one on one unless they had a disability and the school got money for another person. It always came down to not enough bodies. The pay was just insult to injury.

One on one isn’t even necessary, look at the Montessori curriculum, two competent Montessori guides can manage a classroom of 30 kids with each kid working at their own pace (within guardrails, of course). The structure of public education in the US is a problem in addition to chronic underfunding

Thinking back to my school days 15 students in a class was okay. I think I’d prefer that instead of 30 students and two teachers.