Narcisse asks who enforces recommended screen time limits and what happens if schools don't comply

The caps for grade three through eight.

Are described as recommended.

Who is responsible for making sure a school stays under them?

And what happens if a school does not?

Yeah, thank you.

This is back to the conversation earlier around the use of the word recommended versus mandate.

We want to make sure that

You know, I know words matter, so we can argue that mandate would have mattered as much as recommended.

We also know that sometimes mandate leads to a punitive result.

We did not want to make this.

first year of this massive shift in our system, feel punitive or anyone to feel under pressure.

We want to really support our schools in scaling down and paring back how much screen time they're using and how much access to AI, generative AI, that they're using in their schools.

You know, as the first deputy chancellor, underneath me again are our superintendents and all of our schools.

We're working in lockstep.

We have incredible feedback loops.

Some of them are formal, where we get on calls with our superintendents to check the pulse.

I think you know the chancellor and I love to be in schools, and so do our superintendents.

And we'll be using our school visits to gauge how this is going and course correcting, you know, in...

In ways that might be necessary if we come across something.

We learned so much through the cell phone policy that we have implementation of that because these were some of the questions that came up as we launched the cell phone policy as well.

And our schools blew it out of the park with their ability to implement this cell phone policy with fidelity.

And when issues came up, you know, we followed, like, for our students who were really insisting they needed their phone, access to the phone, or finding those great workarounds that are brilliant.

children know how to do, that we're using a more progressive discipline approach than going straight to.

And we want to take the same concept as we implement this this year.

If for some reason we get word of a school, we'll support them through stronger implementation.

And if we get to the point where we really are like, okay, we've done recommended enough, let's like we need to double down on the word mandate going forward, like that is a place that we are willing to evolve and grow.

And again, it was so much community feedback that led us to this policy, and we are not done listening to the community.