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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Opinion: Our children need a break from screens — even at school By Lisa Cline, Gaithersburg


The Maryland State Education Department’s digital best practices plan was created to stem the physical, academic and mental sinkholes associated with excessive screen time. It is the result of a 2018 bill, favored by the Montgomery County Board of Education, that recommended offline alternatives and screen breaks every 20 minutes.

There is no evidence that offline alternatives and screen breaks are available to Montgomery County Public School children, not pre-pandemic and not now — despite many parents requesting books and paper assignments to break up the screen time...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/our-children-need-a-break-from-screens--even-at-school/2021/06/13/5c30c4d6-c958-11eb-8708-64991f2acf28_story.html

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