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what happens when the screens go away

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Colby Sharp
Sep 13, 2025
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Last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I attended fifth grade camp with my students. From Monday morning at 8:30 until Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 the kids were screen free. For the first time since I’ve been doing camp we didn’t even let them have screens on the bus.

My biggest take away from the screen free piece of camp is how much they all wanted a book …

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