Schools Beyond Screens

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A grassroots network of parent-led groups advocating for human-centered, evidence-based policies around classroom tech. We're in 246 school districts in 40 states and growing every day. Join the movement at schoolsbeyondscreens.com.

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This petition has 500 signatures in 24 hours. If you are a BPS parent, student, staff member, or community member please join in sending a message.

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OPT OUT OF AMIRA: We're working with Tech In Check, to help parents learn about the Amira AI "reading screener" and how it endangers our privacy while perpetuating bias against children, marking them as having "reading difficulties" even when the test itself is at fault. @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social

PARENTS: Protect your child’s privacy OPT OUT of Amira K-2 Reading Screening SFUSD OPT-OUT DEADLINE: FRIDAY 9/25/26 HOW TO OPT OUT: https://tinyurl.com/AmiraOptOut SIGN PETITION: https://tinyurl.com/TiCPetition GET INVOLVED: https://tinyurl.com/TechInCheckSF WHAT IS AMIRA? AI reading assessment and tutoring software that captures voice recordings and trains AI models on children’s data. WHY OPT OUT OF AMIRA? It uses children’s biometric data to train AI, without transparency, consent, or adequate privacy protections Privacy policy is unclear Replaces human interaction, depriving students of real instruction, connection, and feedback
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"If you’re looking for inspiration in the fight against authoritarianism in the US, you might want to talk to parents of school-age children — because a bunch of them are taking on the tech oligarchs and notching wins." 💪💪💪

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Breaking News: UFT & AFT making an announcement about AI safety for kids with Microsoft is like the sheep making an announcement about sheep safety with a pack of wolves.

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At a moment when major public school districts like LA and NYC are leading by example to protect students from predatory tech companies, "AI-based" Alpha School is requiring students to chase clout on a dying social media platform. These kids deserve so much better.

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Yes, this:

A screenshot of Audrey Watters’ weekly post that reads, “This growing rejection and refusal of technology – inside and outside of schools – is about much much more than the technology itself. It is, in part, about the loss of control; the loss of agency, autonomy, and privacy. It is a response to the oligarchs’ efforts to undermine democracy. It is about these billionaires’ dismal, dystopian vision for the future – a wanton destruction of the planet writ large and local communities writ small; their apparent hatred for home and humanity alike.”
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Wins against GenAI are “win[s] for democracy - for all the teachers and parents and students who said to district leaders that moving fast with ‘AI’ was going to break things, break people; who asked that their needs be met, their voices be heard over the needs and voices of vendors” Audrey Watters

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.comMove Slow, Remake ThingsIn the prologue to their book Tinkering Toward Utopia, historians David Tyack and Larry Cuban highlight the tensions in how Americans think about schooling: we have, almost since the nation’s outset, ...
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LAUSD adopts moratorium on student AI use, another big move to limit classroom computer use

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Huge shout-out to everybody organizing in NYC and LA public schools - and beyond! - to fight Big Tech and defend publication education. You truly love to see it.

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For the night crowd: the wins you’re seeing in NYC and LA this week did not fall from the sky. They are the result of literally thousands of hours of organizing by parents, teachers, advocates in both communities. These wins belong to them - and the millions of kids in both cities who will benefit.

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