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Distraction-Free Schools Legislation Package

Overview:

The Distraction-Free Schools Model Legislation Package aims to protect students, empower educators, and ensure every classroom tool—digital or traditional—serves a single purpose: helping students learn safely and effectively.​​​​​

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See our Distraction-Free Schools Colorado Advocacy Resources Page​​

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Online and digital products marketed to schools often provide unsafe, ineffective, or inappropriate experiences and collect and share student data without appropriate consent.

 

A lack of regulation has led to:

  • Technology companies marketing commercial products as “educational” with no accountability.

  • Collection and monetization of student data for non-educational purposes.

  • Platforms with advertising, gamification, AI, chat features, and addictive design in classrooms.

  • Parents being excluded from decisions about their child’s digital exposure.

  • Insufficient privacy and safety protections in school technology.

  • Lower math and reading scores on standardized tests such as PISA and NAEP.

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Proposed Solution: 

Schools that protect our children’s minds, attention, and childhood by prioritizing: 

  • Human connection over algorithmic tracking.

  • Deep learning over endless screen time.

  • Tactile learning over constant stimulation

  • Children over technology.

 

One Core Principle:

Digital products should support learning, safety, and privacy. They should not replace human instruction, relationships, or parental authority, and they should not turn our children into commodities.

 

Ten Core Objectives:

  1. Grades Pre-K to 2: Move to 100% Analog.

  2. Grades 3 to 5: All analog with minimal exceptions.

  3. Grades 6 to 8: Computer lab or shared cart model.     

  4. Grades 9 to 12: Computer lab or shared cart model or 1:1 used intentionally.

  5. Establish a generative AI use framework.

  6. Require student-facing digital products to be safe, effective, and privacy-compliant.

  7. Prohibit the use of social media for school communication with students, including for sports teams and after-school activities.

  8. Prohibit posting student images or information on social media without caregiver opt-in.

  9. Establish a Technology Advisory Committee.

  10. Provide teacher development for analog teaching methods. 

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