Affluent parents are drastically restricting screen time. Some not even allowing their children to have digital devices until after middle school. Exclusive private schools are even eliminating computers, iPads, Chromebooks, etc. This is a complete reversal over what has been happening for the last thirty or so years!
It wasn’t long ago that the worry was that rich students would have access to the internet earlier, gaining tech skills and creating a digital divide. Schools ask students to do homework online, while only about two-thirds of people in the U.S. have broadband internet service. But now, as Silicon Valley’s parents increasingly panic over the impact screens have on their children and move toward screen-free lifestyles, worries over a new digital divide are rising. It could happen that the children of poorer and middle-class parents will be raised by screens, while the children of Silicon Valley’s elite will be going back to wooden toys and the luxury of human interaction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/digital-divide-screens-schools.html