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.

We had the save when my kids were doing ratios. Or averages. Maybe it was percentages.
Anyway, no one was invaded in any way.

Just make it up. It will be so the kids can make graphs and shit from the data they have collected.

If you're bothered by it then ask why, but I'd guess at it being a project, in which case your daughter can fill it in and you can tell her whatever you want. I'm pretty sure teachers don't have the time or the inclination to monitor what children are doing outside of school.

Make it up

As above I’d do it (roughly) if it was over a week for a project, but as an ongoing thing I wouldn’t. If asked I’d simply say sorry we don’t have time, and don’t feel it’s something that would benefit us as we are already careful about avoiding too much screen time and don’t need the school’s input on this. In fact it would be counterproductive since I’d end up having to stick the kids in front of the TV to have the peace to fill it out!

Just stick down ‘2’ for everything.

Except for sleep. Stick down 9 hours for sleep.

Write in any old bollocks. That's what I always used to do.

Have my first ever biscuit… it’s a maths project FFS!

This is an awful idea, the kids will mostly see others are allowed more screen time and moan till their parents relent.

I think it is unlikely that the school are being nosy for the fun of it and trying to police what you are doing at home, I think it'll be for a school project as PPs have suggested and that's what I would assume if my child came home with that homework.

My daughter came home with a form to fill in for "homework" that wanted to know things like

How many bedrooms are there in your house?
Do you and your family go on holidays? How many holidays?
How many computers are there in your house?

All designed, in my opinion to work out the socioeconomic status of each pupil! I threw it in the bin and we heard no more. So weird!

It’s for a project! God some people moan about anything.

Yeah I'd make it up as pps said. How bloody nosey of them.

Don’t do it, unlikely to be a legal requirement, police will not be arresting you

@FrownedUpon

It’s for a project! God some people moan about anything.

So? Are "Projects" a ticket into people's private lives? No they're not.

So obviously you have sent a nice, calm email to the school to enquire about the exact purposes - yes?

So? Are "Projects" a ticket into people's private lives?

No because teachers know as well as the rest of us all the parent make it up so it tells you nothing about a persons actual private life.

It’s obviously for a class project

We have had the same homework this week 🤔 Asking them to record sleep too.

I thought it might be linked to Internet Safety Day or something? It's good for DC to consider their screen time/ sleep and what's healthy.

Don't do it if you don't want to.

My dc did this as an ICT project a few years ago.

I think dc tell teachers everything their parents wish they would keep quiet anyway, I wouldn't worry about that too much.

@Tillymintpolo

It’s obviously for a class project

As a pp said, a project is not a voyage into people private lives, to be recorded for all to see. Like FUCK would I be doing it.

@Hellocatshome

So? Are "Projects" a ticket into people's private lives?

No because teachers know as well as the rest of us all the parent make it up so it tells you nothing about a persons actual private life.

How can anyone possibly know that ALL parents make it all up?

@FortunesFave "So? Are "Projects" a ticket into people's private lives? No they're not."

If you think that staff are interested in what you are claiming to do when filling this in and that the data will be held somewhere and used.... Then you're paranoid and self important.

Honestly. It's just a way for a child to learn how to record data that can then be merged with the 28+ other kids data and be used to create graphs, draw conclusions etc.

No-one fives a fuck if your kid is watching 2 minutes or 20 hours of TV a day.

The kid will need some data for a project, make it up, no ones going to check, ffs, the dramatics on this thread