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 I chose an article called Get Tech Out Of The Classroom Before It's Too Late.  The article talks about the mother of an 8th-grade boy named Jamie Lewis. She says that her son's grades have been slipping in the past few months and she blames it on the use of YouTube on her son's school-issued laptop. She knows this because her son's teachers have said that he elects to skip out on test corrections and other things that could help his grade to watch YouTube. Jamie and other parents of students in this class knew they needed to try and make a change. Instead of just trying to remove the student's laptops they make a presentation of why YouTube should be blocked on these students' laptops. 


Some people are pulling their students from schools where they issue a laptop to all students and bringing these kids to a Screen-Free school.


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