When Anya Meksin began searching for a kindergarten for her child, she was excited by the wealth of options in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). As she toured various public elementary schools, however, her enthusiasm was swiftly overtaken by distress.
“I was completely shocked to see, in eight of the ten schools, the kindergartners and first-graders sitting on devices during the school tour with headphones on in a darkened room,” Meksin tells me. Most of them, she added, seemed to be mindlessly browsing YouTube. “I was just like, what is this dystopia?”
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