Council Member Restler questions DOE on tracking home screen time and homework

Councilman LeBlanc?

Thank you, Chair.

I'm reading over here that you have this limit on screen time, the maximum of screen time for grades three to five will be limited to a recommended 30 minutes,

and the screen time, and then grade six to eight recommendation is no more than 45 minutes per day.

My question is how do you track

students screen time when they get home.

Like, because people, yes, you have Chromebooks as issued by schools, but students may use their own computers.

So how do you track that?

Please answer.

Our policy does not speak to out of school time.

That is either my answer.

Can I ask you to elaborate on your question?

Yeah, so...

So, for example?

For example, if they do the homework, you know,

So extending on the Chromebooks.

So we're asking kids to do.

So how are we monitoring how much time our teachers are giving for homework on computers?

Is that what you're asking?

Okay, yes, that will be.

All right, that is a great example.

We have not put a limit on homework at this time.

That is something we are going to be listening in the field for.

But what I would say to you is that our system now knows that our policies are very, you know, very strictly enforced during our instruction.

time with children, we don't want to then say, therefore, you could have four hours of homework.

We are not looking to go to any kinds of extremes.

We're just trying to find that balance, but we did not roll up homework into this policy.

Did you want to jump in or?

I don't know if there's any other.

That's probably enough.

Okay.