When Croton-on-Hudson’s youngest students returned to school earlier this month, a familiar — and increasingly controversial — classroom tool was missing from their desks: iPads.
A new districtwide policy prohibits the devices in kindergarten through second grade with few exceptions. Instead, teachers are emphasizing traditional, hands-on learning through activities like games, puzzles, and pen-and-paper assignments.
The screen-free classrooms arrived after a grassroots effort from local parents in Croton-on-Hudson, an affluent, highly educated suburban village on the Hudson River, 40 miles north of Manhattan.
Formed in July 2025, the Croton Community Collective has amassed more than 400 local members, built a network of parents who’ve tried to give their children a screen-free childhood, reshaped the school board, and secured several changes limiting the use of educational technology in instruction---MORE AT This NYC Suburb Is Bringing Back Screen-Free Childhoods
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Well, affluent may be so when the village is compared to neighboring communities but not to others, but I won't quibble. Thanks for spearheading so much education news lately about the district. Let's hope there are more changes coming to a system that seems to have lost it way. Very grateful to the Collective. It just goes to show what can happen parents say, enough is enough.
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