What I Learned From ‘No Tech Tuesday’: Students Speak About A Summer Without Technology
By Kate McGee, August 29, 2017
Before students at Washington Latin Public Charter School in Northwest D.C. left for summer break, their principal announced an unusual summer challenge at an end of year assembly. Principal Diana Smith said if rising eighth and ninth grade students avoided all screens on the 11 Tuesdays during the summer break, she would pay them each $100 out of her own pocket.
A school principal from Washington, D.C. is challenging her students to spend one day a week this summer without using any electronic devices, and is promising a reward of $100 — of her own money — for each student that completes the challenge.
“I really want the kids not mindlessly grabbing for the phone, but thinking about whether or not the phone … is going to be their source of entertainment,” Diana Smith, principal of the Washington Latin Public Charter School told ABC News.
Diana Smith is the Principal at Washington Latin Public Charter School in DC, and to help her students combat the pull of technology, she issued a challenge. Dana & Jayson had the chance to speak with her and found out what prompted her to put her money where her mouth is, and along the way, we find out if she has any advice for Jayson. He’s totally getting detention.
WASHINGTON — A local principal is offering students $100 each out of her own pocket to stay off their electronic devices just one day a week for the duration of summer break.
Diana Smith, principal of Washington Latin Public Charter School, said rising 8th and 9th graders can earn the prize by foregoing electronics until school starts in late August.
