Meeting Public Comments

Subcommittee meeting and times are as follows:

A bill for an act relating to student instructional technology standards, including elementary school digital instruction limits, technology use policies, and governance of one-to-one digital device programs.(See HF 2685.)

Subcommittee members: Shipley-CH, Fett, Matson

Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Time: 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Location: RM 19

Names and comments are public records. Remaining information is considered a confidential record.

Comments Submitted:

02-16-2026

Janice Haag

I believe facetoface instruction builds language, reasoning, and social development. Our elementary students especially need a firm foundation with very limited screen time. Young learners build literacy, memory, and attention through physical reading, handwriting, and direct instruction. Technology should enhance learning and definitely not dominate it.Parents deserve the right to opt out of 1:1 device programs without penalty as parents know their children best. Please support of HF 2451.

02-16-2026

Lynda Lawson

Screen time should only be used minimally because it is the face to face learning and human interaction that solidifies a student/ teacher relationship and trust. Interacting with peers in the class developed communication and interpersonal relationship skills. These are not developed in screen time. It is essential to get all points in this proposed bill on the floor, presented and passed. Too long our students have had their education process of personal interaction and participation with each other and their teacher become secondary. The social skills development is not done by screen time! In room teacher instruction, encouragement and eye contact how they learn best.

02-16-2026

Courtney Collier

Please support HF 2451 to improve education and academic outcomes. BIG tech and screen time in humans is detrimental to mental and cognitive health. Children learn best human to human and with books, paper and pencil. There is also the concern of privacy and data harvesting via school issued devices. I would love to see our students get back to those methods and compare the outcomes. The experiment with 1:1 tech since 2020 has proved to be disastrous in my opinion.

02-16-2026

David Anderson

While I appreciate the goal of this bill, it is the 21st Century and digital literacy is going to be very important to future economic success, and there are very definite potential cost advantages to textbooks being on a screen as compared to dead trees. The 60 minute limitation smells like it was arbitrarily chosen as opposed to being decided upon from current research of what works for children and what is actually going on in schools.

02-17-2026

Jody Jacklin

I am in favor of the bill. Especially at the early part of education it is important to get the fundamental/foundational tools down first. Before incorporating electronic non organic assistance. Allow the childs brain to develop first.