It’s time to expel EdTech from American schools

The new school year is fast approaching, and with it, the now unavoidable arguments over children refusing to peel their eyes from their screens, put their devices away, and turn their attention to what matters: the screens forced on them by their schools.

That’s right. As politicians nationwide are tripping over themselves to rush through privacy-eroding age-gating legislation in response to a Helen Lovejoy-style moral panic concerning screentime, schools continue to maintain policies that ensure no child can write an essay or learn math without interfacing with a seemingly infinite number of apps on a school-issued iPad.