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.

[quote 00100001]@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.[/quote]
No-one gives a fuck if your kid is watching 2 minutes or 20 hours of TV a day.

So why the fuck are they asking then?

@Tillymintpolo

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

Oh do bore off. People are entitled to their opinions, and to feel aggrieved by it. You don't get to dictate how people feel and how they react. Who made YOU the forum police?

@FortunesFave

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!

Weird. Very intrusive. I'd bin it too. I hate this kind of shit.

We have had various surveys in the past too, asking about shopping habits/socialising habits/where we go on holidays etc etc... They ask 'normal' personal questions like date of birth and marital status, and how many children etc...

Then they start asking 'what is your annual income?' and 'is anyone disabled in the house?' and 'what is your job, and partners job?' and 'what is the total income in the household?' and 'what is the level of education of yourself and all the people living with you?' and 'what benefits are received in your house and by whom?' and 'have you ever had any mental health problems?'

Survey goes in bin. Nosey cunts.

For everyone saying "Oh just make something up", surely that's not the point? Giving false data to get the school off your back actually only plays into their hands that they CAN ask these invasive questions about what you do with YOUR child in YOUR home. Giving false answers to pacify them just gives them more ammunition to continue because "nobody has complained about it", "we always have a high uptake" blah blah blah. By just filling it in with whatever, just gives them more rope to tie you up with. Say no. Say it's not their business and refuse. I can guarantee you nobody wants to fill it in but people will because they feel they have to. Take a stand. Be a rebel. Say no thank you.

No not here! I would find this intrusive too. Ds is autistic. Sometimes screen time is his only chill time. I don't set a specific time limit for screen time. I just make sure we go out too and exercise, do other things. DS's sleep pattern sound probably worry teachers too. The bugger won't settle until 10-10.30 sometimes 😪

Hypocrite much @PurpleRainlnTheSky ??

@bofski14

For everyone saying "Oh just make something up", surely that's not the point? Giving false data to get the school off your back actually only plays into their hands that they CAN ask these invasive questions about what you do with YOUR child in YOUR home. Giving false answers to pacify them just gives them more ammunition to continue because "nobody has complained about it", "we always have a high uptake" blah blah blah. By just filling it in with whatever, just gives them more rope to tie you up with. Say no. Say it's not their business and refuse. I can guarantee you nobody wants to fill it in but people will because they feel they have to. Take a stand. Be a rebel. Say no thank you.

This. ^ Everyone needs to tell the school 'NO.'

@Tillymintpolo

Hypocrite much *@PurpleRainlnTheSky* ??

You still here? Shoo forum police shoo shoo......

I would say that’s a project survey.
Ask the teacher before leaping to “OMG stop trying to control me!”.

Honestly.

It is very intrusive. Each and every family are different so I likely be judged if it was us. Mine probably have more screen time than most. We are gamer family but as as long as they do other things, exercise etc I wouldn't worry about it!

Just lie.

Just replying to you @PurpleRainlnTheSky, or are you dictating who can post now ? Shoo the fuck off yourself

Fucking hell, I can't believe some of the shite I'm reading on this thread. Are posters getting some practice in for their amateur dramatics class?

The teachers won't care. The pupils will collate the material together in groups or as a class and the teacher will probably just see the results not the individual responses.

Much better than the show and tell what you did this weekend with the family. Now that did give teachers an amusing insight 😂😂

There's be plenty of complaints if the school didn't try to speak to children about screen time and the importance of getting a balance.

Make it up. It’s only so the kids can make bar charts or something for maths/IT. No one is going to be forwarding it to SS or printing off a copy to put in their records.

@Kca29

It is very intrusive. Each and every family are different so I likely be judged if it was us. Mine probably have more screen time than most. We are gamer family but as as long as they do other things, exercise etc I wouldn't worry about it!

Exactly. Nosey as fuck.

It's gathering data for graphs/IT activities with some learning about the importance of sleep and limiting screen time.

I actually think it's a good idea to get this message across to children as young as possible and as frequently as possible, and it could promote useful discussion at home.

On that controversial note - that the school is probably trying to make learning relevant, interactive and fun I shall depart.

@Freecuthbert

Fucking hell, I can't believe some of the shite I'm reading on this thread. Are posters getting some practice in for their amateur dramatics class?

Like I said to the forum PC @Tillymintpolo bore off and stop telling people how they should feel. You don't get to dictate how people react.

I'd also say it's for a project or to raise awareness, so something helpful that might help the children rethink the time they spend on screens

Lol that would be forgotten so fast!

@PurpleRainlnTheSky
Since when did I dictate anything... that was my perfectly normal reaction to a bunch of drama queens on this thread. Are you normally so strange?

Yes, had to do it a couple of years ago for DD. If I remember rightly they were doing some sort of life lessons/skills or something along those lines (I'm probably way off here)
Had no issue with it tbh with you, she came home and said it was something they were doing in class and we just got on with it x

If it’s a one off for a project then YABU , just fake result if you don’t want them to know your habits.

If this is an ongoing thing then YANBU. The school should never need that amount of info.