Dr Jared Cooney Horvath

And if you've been in a classroom longer than 15 years, you know how bad kids are today compared to what they were.

But teachers can't speak up.

Teachers don't have a voice until parents do.

When parents start moving, teachers will swoop in behind you and they will say, yep, we can help you.

We've got your supports.

We've got the data you need.

And they become your biggest champions.

Unfortunately, they just can't talk because their jobs are on the line.

I was working at a district in Kansas recently, where the district gave everyone laptops.

Here's your one-to-one programs.

Put a program on that timed how long the laptop was used and for what purposes, sent that data back to the district.

And they put a marker that said, you have to use this 20 minutes in your class every day, otherwise you will lose your job.

So if you're a teacher and you know tech doesn't work, and you've just been told, I have to use tech 20 minutes every single day, otherwise I'm fired, you don't have a voice.

You put your head down and you do what you got to do.

So that's why parents become essential.

You push, teachers will have your back.

But we can't wait for teachers to make the move.

Yeah.

And I think that's, once we get the learning settled,

that's when we can start having more meaningful debates on what is this all for, and then what are the curriculum aspects of it?