I do wish that she could have more of an in-person social life, but spending most of the day staring at a screen is clearly doing her less harm than the spirit-

I do wish that she could have more of an in-person social life, but spending most of the day staring at a screen is clearly doing her less harm than the spirit-crushing environment of aggression and unpredictable violence she was dealing with at school. A fair bit of what she's doing with that screen involves socializing with other kids, anyway. My own background leads me to believe that people overestimate the value of the social skills one must learn in order to thrive among large, artificially age-segregated groups of barely-monitored children, who know nothing and are apt to hurt each other: an environment unlike anything we experience in adulthood. Eventually one must learn - from adults! - how to behave like an adult, after all, and those are the skills which actually matter in the long run.