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Coincidentally, I just emailed our school board about this. Our district claims to support BYOD, but has no documentation. As parents, we should be able to det

Coincidentally, I just emailed our school board about this. Our district claims to support BYOD, but has no documentation. As parents, we should be able to determine what our kids have access to based on our own family values. No two families will be the same. The idea that elementary or middle school children can handle having unrestricted (or minimally restricted) devices is absurd.

1letterunixname 4y ago
BYOD is partially a terrible idea. They shouldn't be sending kids home with devices. What about parents who object to technology screen time? Could we not invent a religion, say Reformed Mennonites, that objects to children using screen devices? How could they argue with that?
- prepend 4y ago
  I was able to use unspecific religious and cultural preferences to get my school to allow BYOD, after many other attempts failed. I think there’s some value in having a modern, atheist, philosophical church to yield positive bureaucratic results. It reminds me of the early internet’s Church of the Subgenius [0] and people playing around for lulz. I had friends who were ironically Satanists and still have some who claim to be Discordians, but I think that’s just to mess with census takers. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius
  - MandieD 4y ago
    Real US church with a long history, prominent historic members (John Adams and family) and a rather open attitude towards the existence of God/gods: the Unitarian-Universalist Church. My agnostic childhood best friend sends her daughters to various youth programs there, and she and I are both recovering Southern Baptists (I went a more middle road: Episcopalian). She really likes their relationship and sexuality education series for teens.
- bearmode 4y ago
  >What about parents who object to technology screen time? As in, completely? Then those parents should realise that they're severely hampering their kid's education and development in a screen-focused world, and set more reasonable restrictions.
  - prepend 4y ago
    I’m guessing the Amish have way higher SAT and lifetime income stats.

1letterunixname 4y ago

BYOD is partially a terrible idea. They shouldn't be sending kids home with devices. What about parents who object to technology screen time? Could we not invent a religion, say Reformed Mennonites, that objects to children using screen devices? How could they argue with that?

prepend 4y ago
I was able to use unspecific religious and cultural preferences to get my school to allow BYOD, after many other attempts failed. I think there’s some value in having a modern, atheist, philosophical church to yield positive bureaucratic results. It reminds me of the early internet’s Church of the Subgenius [0] and people playing around for lulz. I had friends who were ironically Satanists and still have some who claim to be Discordians, but I think that’s just to mess with census takers. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius
- MandieD 4y ago
  Real US church with a long history, prominent historic members (John Adams and family) and a rather open attitude towards the existence of God/gods: the Unitarian-Universalist Church. My agnostic childhood best friend sends her daughters to various youth programs there, and she and I are both recovering Southern Baptists (I went a more middle road: Episcopalian). She really likes their relationship and sexuality education series for teens.
bearmode 4y ago
>What about parents who object to technology screen time? As in, completely? Then those parents should realise that they're severely hampering their kid's education and development in a screen-focused world, and set more reasonable restrictions.
- prepend 4y ago
  I’m guessing the Amish have way higher SAT and lifetime income stats.