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Tell SBUSD: Rein in the rampant use of screens!

A growing number of educators, parents, students, researchers, and community members across the country -- and right here in Santa Barbara! -- are urging school districts to rethink and rein in the rampant use of screens inside the classroom. Creating real change requires organizing, showing up, and making our voices impossible to ignore. WE NEED YOUR HELP! Help us ensure that Santa Barbara Unified School District -- into which schools from Goleta and Hope District also funnel -- follows the lead of our neighbors in Los Angeles. It is there that the board of the nation's second-largest school district just recently passed a historic classroom screen use resolution. When implemented this fall, it will set hard time limits by grade level; block YouTube, gaming platforms, and other recreational apps; eliminate devices for the youngest students; require weekly screentime reports to parents; and much more. Santa Barbara school board members are expected to soon vote on a similar resolution, also to be implemented this fall. Public consensus is growing and LAUSD has shown it can be done. The time to act is NOW on what the data and evidence make clear about the academic, emotional, and physical harms linked to excessive screen time. Our kids, and our community, need not wait any longer. Please join us in telling SBUSD’s board that our community is paying attention and demanding immediate action and ***SIGN THIS PETITION!***

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