Family survey

Share your family's honest experience.

Your responses are anonymous. Aggregate data from your school is displayed publicly on your school's dashboard.

We never ask for or store your email address. Your responses are saved in this browser instead — so use the same device for all of your children, and come back to that device when you want to update your answers.

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About your child
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Fill this out once for each child's school, division, and grade. Multiple children in the same division can be filled out on one form if their technology access is the same. If you have children in different divisions or schools, or tech varies child to child, please submit a separate survey for each one.
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Devices and access
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What devices does this child have access to?
Select all that apply. Include shared family devices they can use.
Which of these does your child have access to, on any device?
Select all that apply.
When did this child get each of these — or when do you expect to?
Answer as best you can. Plans change — when they do, update your survey next year and the shift will show up.
Home landline the child can use
Kids or monitored phone — Gabb, Bark, Pinwheel, Troomi
Basic flip phone or dumbphone
Smartphone, with limits
Smartphone, few or no limits
Group chats
Snapchat
Instagram
TikTok
Their own YouTube account
If anything happened sooner or later than you'd planned, what changed?
For shared devices like a family iPad — how does this child access them?
What restrictions or monitoring tools apply to this child?
Select all that apply.
Is this child permitted to use group chats?
Does this child use AI tools outside of school? For what?
Select all that apply.
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Gaming
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Does this child play video games?
Which gaming platforms does this child use?
Select all that apply.
How are this child's gaming sessions managed?
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What you're seeing — the good and the hard
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In the last three months, has technology helped this child in any of these ways?
Select all that apply.
One way technology has genuinely been good for this child
In the last three months, how often have screens been a source of conflict with this child?
How would you describe this child's overall relationship with their devices?
Have you noticed technology affecting this child in any of the following ways in the last three months?
Select all that apply.
Has technology displaced any of the following for this child in the last three months?
Select all that apply.
How concerned are you that your child could come to rely on AI before building their own ability to think, write, and solve problems?
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Your approach — and handing over the reins
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Which of the following policies apply to this child?
Select all that apply.
For each of these, where is this child right now?
Some things get handed to kids in stages; some your family may never hand over. Both are fine answers.
Own phone
Group chats
Messaging and sharing with friends they know — photos, stories, DMs
Algorithmic feeds — TikTok For You, Reels, Shorts, YouTube recommendations
Gaming time
AI for schoolwork
Managing their own screen limits
Over the next year, do you expect to give this child more independence with technology, about the same, or less?
What would help you know this child is ready for the next step?
Do you permit this child to spend time with friends without adult supervision?
How confident do you feel guiding this child's technology use — setting limits, and loosening them as they're ready?
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Choosing together
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Some choices aren't really private — what one family does shapes what's normal for everyone else's kids. These questions help a community see where families would welcome coordinating, in either direction.

If you knew most families in your child's grade were making the same choice, would you…
Answer each one separately. “No difference” means you'd decide the same way regardless of what other families do. “Already has it” means that decision's behind you.
Their own smartphone
Group chats
Snapchat or other social messaging
Algorithmic feeds — TikTok, Reels, Shorts
Online multiplayer gaming
AI tools
Have you felt pressure from other families or kids about this child's technology?
To give MORE access than you wanted
To give LESS access than you wanted
Would you support a grade-wide norm on any of these?
Select all that apply.
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What would help
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What would make the biggest difference — for your family and for our school community?
Select all that apply.
Is there anything else you want us to know about this child's experience with technology?
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How you're feeling
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Now think beyond your own family. How concerned are you about each of these for kids at our school and in our community?

Smartphones and phones at school
Social media
Group chats and messaging
Video games
Regarding classroom screens and learning software ("EdTech")
Regarding phones during the school day, you'd prefer your school move toward…
Regarding students using AI for schoolwork, you'd prefer your school…
Regarding screen-based instruction during class, you'd prefer…
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Your school and community
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How your school communicates and how connected and aligned families feel.

How connected do you feel to other parents at your school on these issues?
How well is your school communicating its approach to technology to families?
Do you feel you understand your school's current approach to AI in particular?
What would help you understand your school's approach?
Select all that apply.
How well is your school handling devices during the school day and on the bus?
Not displayed on the public dashboard.
If your child rides a school bus, how much have you thought about phone and screen use during the ride?