A school in Kansas is ending individual Chromebook assignments in push to cut screen time

Kids using laptops on their desks at school.

A middle school in Kansas is making a shift in how students use technology, moving away from assigning each child a personal Chromebook to limit screen time.

What used to be loaded into every student’s backpack will now stay in the classroom at McPherson Middle School.

“Technology has a wonderful place in education, but what we have found is that we’ve just simply immersed students too much in technology,” McPherson Middle School Principal Inge Esping said. “It’s too readily available and therefore there’s a lot of distractions.”

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