Morano questions DOE on homework screen time and paper alternatives for parents

Finally, your screen time limits don't apply to out-of-school learning.

What's a parent who's trying to limit screens at home supposed to do when their fourth grader comes home and says, my homework is on the Chromebook?

Would DOE consider giving parents a right to request a reasonable paper alternative when the assignment doesn't inherently require a computer?

Yes, so our policy doesn't speak to homework.

We know some of our teachers will maybe post homework in the Google Classroom.

We are happy to continue our teachers, you know, supporting paper, pencil, homework options.

We also know that at home in their devices, we need to get our kids ready for remote learning days, which while we have one planned for Election Day this year,

often our remote, our pivot to remote days are under some kind of weather or other emergency, God forbid.

And so we do need our kids ready to do that.

And we also know that outside of school, we also have our after-school programs as well.

And so we partnered with, I had a great meeting with our DYCD commissioner to share our policies, to make sure that during the school day, our partners during the instructional day were aware of our policy.

And so that they could be inspired to think thoughtfully about how they are using technology in after school as well.

Thanks very much.

Thank you.