No more pencils, no more books? In Oregon, pushback is growing on screen time during school

When Libby Sanford’s son came home from his first day of kindergarten in Beaverton, she anticipated tales of new friends, lunch in the cafeteria and playground games.

Instead, her son Max wanted to talk about technology.

He’d played on the PBSKids app during his technology class, watched Super Why! — a show about reading-powered superheroes — with his classmates while waiting in line for his turn to wash his hands and already reached level 12 on his DreamBox math app…

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