Our template letter for parents to opt out of screen-based homework is live!
Parents across the country are telling us the same thing: screen-based homework is creeping into family life and it’s disrupting evenings, damaging sleep, harming handwriting, and fuelling arguments at home.
Children as young as five are being told to log into apps like Times Tables Rock Stars, Spelling Shed, Kahoot, and Duolingo just to complete basic spelling or times tables. Parents who work so hard to set boundaries around tech are being undercut and forced to hand their children a screen in the very hours they should be winding down.
👉 We know how hard parents work to set boundaries around screen time at home, yet EdTech has crept in through the back door of our schools, normalising screen use and making it feel like Big Tech in uniform. EdTech applications are unregulated, their impact unevaluated and any claims of benefit unevidenced. Families who fight for balance are being undercut by schools mandating apps and devices instead of pen and paper.
That’s why we’ve created a template opt-out letter for digital homework, that you can send straight to your school. You can personalise it with your family’s experiences, whether that’s sleep disruption, lack of concentration, tech-related meltdowns, or simply wanting your child to learn with pen and paper, not a gamified app.
Download the template today and send it to your school.
If you get a response (positive or negative), please share it with us. Every letter strengthens the case we’re building with MPs and journalists. (We can keep your details completely anonymous.)
Let us know how the letter goes down with your school — your feedback really matters.
This is how we push back, together.
