Belgrade - School Report Question and Answers

Technology is definitely integrated in the classroom but we've felt there's a good balance. For example, in our child's class, they may write a small summary on an iPad but they're still using notebooks for creative writing and have their own handwriting notebooks as well. At the end of the year, we received three notebooks that contained not only their creative writing, but also dedicated notebooks for their personal inquiry (subjects and ideas they want to learn about) as well as for mathematics. - Aug 2026

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Laptops are provided by the school in the classroom and remain there for the Elementary School. Starting in the 6th grade, kids have to bring their own laptop. This was one of our main issue, and one of the reasons we decided to switch our youngest daughter to Chartwell. Technology was overwhelmingly present, everything was done on computers throughout the day, and then, back home, homework also had to be completed on computers. My children reported that some teachers asked kids, even in the 6th grade, to do their research on the computer, and while the kids were supposed to do that (and actually spent a lot of time watching You Tube videos) they would see teachers on their Facebook account. Mobile phones were allowed throughout the day (this may have changed, I heard that some new rules had been implemented, after a lot of parents complained). - Dec 2018

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