To resent school daughter's school trying to invade my privacy

[Felicejayne]

My 8 year old came home with a form in her link book where we're expected to record screen time, devices, activity, off-screen activities and hours of sleep. This is supposed to be done every day including weekends.
Has anyone else been asked to fill in similar?
It's the whole class who've been asked to do it.
I understand the need to control screen time but it gets my back up that the school thinks they have the right or the need to micromanage this.

No, and I'd refuse to. Apart from it sounding far too administrative, it's NOTB.

Its probably just for a class survey or something, and they'll make charts with the figures. I would ask for clarification though, it does sound a bit big brother.

Just don’t fill it in. Or is it just for a week for a project?

Just make one up. I expect it's for a piece of topic or ICT work.

Sounds odd are you being asked to take part in some research, even that would need informed consent, I wouldn't complete it

Have you asked why?

Tbh I wouldn’t know some of it because I’m at work!

Probably a survey of some sort, we have just done water usage/showers

Just make it up fgs. Do you think the school actually looks at things like this or cares?

Just don’t do it. If pushed, reply “in the nicest possible way, this actually isn’t
any of your concern….”

All the time or a project? Fuck that, the reading diary is as far as we get, and that's hit. And miss.

That sounds quite a bit of work! TBH. When does the school think you'll have time to do this?

If it's for a project I'd fill it in. If it's school checking up I'd be less keen.

If it's for a project for a limited time, why not? Although most will probably lie anyway (the children because they want to look cool and say they have loads of screen time and stay up late or the adults who want to minimise screen time and say their kids get loads of sleep )

As a general surveillance for evermore, no way!

Sounds like the homework for parents that they’re so fond of dishing out in primary.

If it’s for a finite project I might do it as a rough approximation for a week. But if it’s an ongoing sticky-beak overreach on the part of the school I’d just ignore it. No way so they get the right to micromanage out of school activity.

Oh god. Get over yourself, It will be for some project. Not invading your privacy 🙄

If you're really bothered,just make it up...

Yes, we had to do it before Christmas. It was something to do with IT. We filled it in, but not truthfully.

It’s just a project for Computing. They really aren’t trying to police your child’s online usage.

Just make it up, they won’t really care what you do if your child isn’t the target of a measure like this. It’s probably a sledgehammer approach to make a minority of parents think about how much sleep and screen time their children are getting because they have seen the detrimental effects of it in the classroom.

Ignore it, tell the school you have a job already and it doesn’t allow time for that level of micromanagement.

We had to do this in school when I was about 9 years old, though then the only 'screens' were TVs. Some in my class took it as a challenge to see who could rack up the most hours of tv watched Some managed 13+ hours a day on school days

They are not trying to control you or invade your privacy.

It will be for a project.

I think you are being a bit ridiculous tbh.

If it's homework your daughter would fill it in. (Go through expert recommendations first with her)

DD did this in Y2, 7 years ago.

Just for one week, they learned to put it into a graph and talked about a balance between screen time, other activities and sleep.

I felt sorry for DD, with her being at a childminder 4 out of 5 schooldays she didn't manage more than 2x 15 minutes. spelling and times table apps per day. She wasn't impressed with her lack of online activities :-)

@Felicejayne

My 8 year old came home with a form in her link book where we're expected to record screen time, devices, activity, off-screen activities and hours of sleep. This is supposed to be done every day including weekends. Has anyone else been asked to fill in similar? It's the whole class who've been asked to do it. I understand the need to control screen time but it gets my back up that the school thinks they have the right or the need to micromanage this.

Your screen time and sleep or just your 8 year olds?

Just a project or something similar.

Of course you can fake it if you're really worried about being judged.
I've a friend whose dc (similar age) told her at the end of the week so she made up the week's worth of menus. She was very careful to make sure they sounded a "good menu".
She was rather embarrassed when she saw the conclusion that her daughter had written. Something along the lines of:

"I found that 95% of the class had milk every day, meat 70% of the time and 80% had 5 fruit and veg....
But if everyone makes up the meals like my mum then that isn't true. We went to McDonalds twice and I don't eat carrots and she put I had them EVERY DAY"