Inside A Tech-Free School Where Tech Executives Send Their Kids

So it,s not technically tech free. Some tech"

It was interesting to understand that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs raised their kids without technology 🤔

Fantastic!

How selfish that they work on getting others' kids addicted to screens, but don't want it for their own kids…..

The master plan behind all of this is to make sure their kids aren’t as stupid as the rest of us are.

This is really good to know there is a place where gadgets are not used by the school as the only source of of teaching and learning.😊

So every underfunded public school ever?

This is how school SHOULD be!!!! This is why I homeschool. I'm grateful that I grew up in the 80s and 90s!!!

You are really saying this high cost institution doesn't teach computation skills in the lower grades and teaches knitting and sewing right. Good job. Good job you guys. Ruin the entire generation with your neo liberal bs. This is sad.

Amazing bring this back ❤

In NY/NJ the ultra Orthodox community doesn't allow text messaging and up. So Internet there either. Not at home and not in school.

This was our norm when we were kids. I actually find this offensive since the parents are part of the problem

This is not news to 3rd world civilians. Most of us don't have access to basic lab equipment let alone a laptop in our entire college years.

I disagree with this lady. Causation is hard to remove later from the correlations. We are naturally human and tend to take the easier and more addictive options. It’s just how most of us really are. It’s only the rare and the few who overcome the temptations and go for the “good” choices. That’s a fact we must keep in mind when we brush off the impacts of too much technology at the expense of social human nature based and physical activity and interactive learning. As an example the men in my family are all heavily addicted since they were introduced to devices at schools and then in the workplace and it naturally seeped into the choices for entertainment and now it’s pervasive into every aspect of their lives.

We're not rich. We live in a rural area and have been homeschooling without tech until this year, and even then, it's supremely limited.
It has helped ADHD.

This is so funny to watch in 2025. Until last summer all the schools and all education related politicans were pushing for more and more tech use in schoosl saying that it's the future and now a lot of countrys are banning phones completely from schools.
I live in Hungary and elementary schoolers weren't allowed phones even when I was going to elementary school 10 years ago but as of this school year phones have been completely banned from high schools too. Kids can't use their phones even during bearks between classes. They either have to give it to the teacher in the morning and it gets locked up and the kids get it back after school or they don't take their phones with them at all; which is kind of dangerous in this day and age but older people don't see how it could be dangerous for kids to go around without any means of contacting someone because they grew up when it was safe for kids to go around alone without any means of contacting someone.

Folks do know that we've had tech-free schools in the 70's and 80's. Still, you had dummies coming out of these schools. Particularly public. I guess the implication from this is that less tech = better education. Back in the day, it was the opposite philosophy, more tech = better education. As a teacher, I've learned it doesn't matter whether you have tech or not. If you are just a curious person altogether, or like learning, you will be interested in school and knowledge. These kids have parents who pretty much liked school and learning. This approach wouldn't work with trailer trash or ghetto kids. You can give them all the tech or no tech, they still wouldn't be interested in school because they are generally not interested in learning anything new.

Moderate Philosophy is the best method. The best of both worlds.

the fact that this is where tech folks send their kids should tell you enough about what they think about tech and how YOU are the product making them rich and they dngaf about you or your children. my husband and I are raising our kiddo like this at home, and i wish the school would do the same, but that's just the world we live in as i certainly can't do anything about it when the tuition for these places is like 12-30k

Private Christian schools also teach in this style. I would not be able to read and write today if it weren’t for them teaching Phonics. Whoever made up the ‘Mountain Word’ system obviously didn’t have kids. Either that or they were so disconnected from their own kids that they forgot reading and writing are skills that need to be taught. Kids don’t magically know this already; that is called wishful thinking.

This is hilarious to a millennial. This is how we grew up. I spent 3 hours a day min playing outside from 5-12 years old. Sometimes I’d get home and play outside until dinner. All my school breaks were spent playing outside. That’s just what kids did. Sometime if the teachers didn’t feel like teaching inside they’d take us out to the field or the woods and teach their lesson while the kids swung from branches or sat on logs.

I know me personally I don’t want my kids dependent on any devices and they won’t be getting devices for mindless scrolling until 14 ish. Sure I’ll play them movies or tv shows with minimal advertisements. But they won’t be playing games on an ipad. They will be playing chess, drawing, using their imagination outside, playing marbles in the first. Making tree forts etc. it’s how I grew up and I won’t even have kids if I can’t provide this for them.

Imagine paying more for a high school education than a college education — so that you can have a typical education from 1-2 hundred years ago. If that's what it costs, I'll just educate my kids myself for free

This is basicly just public school. I did all the same enrichment activities in summer camp and school.

This came off really biased and out of touch. Plenty of schools are low tech. Also, they talk about kids on phones, thats completely different than using a computer in the classroom.
Finally, i didnt see a single reference to a study. All opinions. Theyre nepo babies. They wont be successful. Statistically, doesnt matter how much tech you take away or give them. Nepo babies usually live off parents wealth.

Can kids at Waldorf schools keep up with AI in today's society?

Tech-free environment + healthy food access in other countries: Normal

Tech-free environment + healthy food access in US: 💰💰💰

It’s just another private school. My daughter goes to a private school here in the UK. It’s the same bloody concept 😅🙄🤣🤣

So basically… school as I remember it.

And Covid? Zoom?

Open your eyes.

Can they just do Montessori stuff in schools? Where the kids move real objects and learn concentration and time management? Why is Montessori only for the rich and not the general public?

Tech executives that send their kids to schools with no tech. Nice to know how much confidence they have in their own damn products

Heckin animal scruffers

I sent my son to a Waldorf school up to grade 8 and it was a deep and beautiful education. I have a doctorate in Education and have studied the research: Waldorf's respect for child development, no screens policies, and holistic approach is what the new studies in neuroscience show is best for optimal brain development.

I would prefer using less technology in the classroom, as a teacher.
Too much screen time between school and home, is making society far less interesting and we also experience more mental health issues.

In México we used "cromos" not "chromebooks" 🤭

Well, they have gotta groom the next generation of elites ready to rule over the next generation of the dumbed down masses.

Funny… How techie switch.

I love this holistic approach to multisensory learning that includes understanding of the critical connections we all have with one another and the earth.

The UC Irvines professor’s comments did not age well. 5 years on we see it played out as the concerned folks had worried about.

That lady is lying to herself.

I’m more of a visual learner type so I use tech for researching topics

Interesting video and concept. I kind of don’t know what to think as I’ll likely never be wealthy enough to send potential future children to a private education. All I do know is at home I would limit internet usage to some extent and encourage other forms of entertainment and connection.