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LuAnn Oliver's son demonstrates how he uses an iPad for his classes during a meeting where a group of school parents discussed ways to push back against screen time at the children's school, Saturday, May 9, 2026 in Arlington, Va.

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America's tech-filled classrooms are facing a backlash against school-assigned devices

America's tech-filled classrooms are facing a backlash against school-assigned devices

Schools across the U.S. are starting to rethink the abundance of digital devices in classrooms. After pouring billions of dollars into laptops, tablets and learning apps, a growing number of schools say it is time to scale back. The Los Angeles public school system announced it will stop giving its youngest students devices, as part of a sweeping new screen policy in the nation's second-largest school district. Concerned parents are driving the reforms. As one mother says: her daughter came home from school “with a screen addiction in her backpack.”