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G-Rated Group: September 10 talk
Eight excerpts from the September 10, 2026 “Tech in Public Schools” talk.
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Liz and Allie of G-Rated School call for limits on school devices and closer oversight of software and student privacy. They describe plans for legislation in 2027. Davis County Conservatives hosted the September 10, 2026 talk, included here as a related school-materials debate.
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Full coverage coming soon. Watch eight excerpts from the September 10, 2026 “Tech in Public Schools” talk hosted by Davis County Conservatives.
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Presenter introductions
The host introduces Liz and Allie.
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Okay, I'm just going to read a couple bios and then we'll turn the time over to Lizali. Um Liz is a mom, a registered dietician, and a child advocate. Before becoming a stay-at-home parent of 18 years, Liz worked with young people struggling with eating disorder behavior. She's a foodie who believes connecting around the Goodwill is magic. She's passionate about raising kids to meet modern challenges, especially as it relates to technology and the digital world. Next to her four children, husband Liz loves reading, knitting, yard work, and a good DIY project. And Ally.
Ally is a mom, wife, and passionate child advocate who has always had a heart for kids. She feels most at home when she's surrounded by children, making child advocacy a natural fit and a meaningful part of who she is. When she's not advocating for kids, she'll you'll find Ally drawing, painting, creating, laughing, or spending time with the people she loves. She's a fan of a good treat, an ice cold diet coke, a a great memoir, and a [clears throat] good workout. But she also deeply appreciates sleeping in, having no schedule, and absolutely no to-do list. Above all, Ally loves people, loves to
laugh, and believes life is best when there's room for creativity, connection, and a little fun. I already love you guys. [laughter]
Where the presenters live
The presenters discuss living in Sandy.
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Ally. Thank you for the intros. That tells a little about us. Oh, maybe I should say we live in um Sandy. So, we don't live here in Davis County, but I did live in Centerville for 7 years and then pole 2 years before that. Um and so
Private email with adults in the district
The presenter says district accounts let students email others privately. She raises concern about that ability but says she has no evidence of such a conversation.
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privately email um their peers at school. I can't email them because I don't have a district email address. But anybody, any adult, they can communicate, have a private conversation with any adult in the entire district. I have no evidence of that being done, but that's just concerning to me as a parent that that capability exists. Um, I have accessed chat forums on my kids um
The claim that 97 percent of apps violated data agreements
The presenter attributes a review of 100 school apps to BYU and Internet Safety Labs and claims that 97 percent did not comply with their data privacy agreements (DPAs). She also cites 52 percent collecting disallowed data and 36 percent sharing data with advertisers.
The August 20, 2025 USBE/BYU/Internet Safety Labs report tested 100 selected apps. It found that 44 of 85 with relevant DPAs (52 percent) collected data their agreements did not allow. The claimed 97-percent result is absent; its source is unknown.
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awesome. Oh, I was trying something goofy with this. We like did the thing with the letters. I don't know. Okay. But even though the DPA is really good, we um last year in an independent audit done by BYU and a group called Internet Safety Labs, they looked at 100 of the most used apps in school and they found that 97% of them were out of compliance with those DPAs. >> [snorts] >> So, what that looks like is 52% of those 100 apps, more than half, collected data they were not allowed to collect. 36% shared that data with
advertisers. And some of these apps were even using unique identifiers, which is
Facts and teaching effectiveness
The presenter claims six years of data show school technology is ineffective for teaching. The excerpt ends as she introduces three reasons, which continue in the full talk.
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lot less rigorous and I was very frustrated. Um, but there was no facts to back it up. But [clears throat] fortunately and unfortunately, we're 6 years into this experiment and we have a lot of data now and it's a real bummer. But it's good that we know about it. So maybe we can do something different. Okay. School of Tech is just not good at teaching and it's a fact. So, there's three big reasons, and we could probably
A caution about repeating a claim
The presenter says a video-game claim may be untrue and asks listeners not to repeat it as fact. This ten-second excerpt ends before she finishes explaining the alleged emergency-response effect.
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especially on these like Nintendo games and the other games on YouTube you do. >> I completely agree. In fact, I heard once and I don't know if this is true but it makes sense to me. So don't repeat that as fact. But I heard once that video games will stimulate the like the um kind of emergency response in a
Reading scores and conclusions
The presenter associates a flattening and then decline in reading scores with classroom computers and one device per student. She says the relationship is not known for sure, while calling the data conclusive. She describes the chart as Utah data.
The slide is labeled “NAEP Test Scores 8th Grade / READING” and ends at 256, with a four-point decrease from 2020 to 2023. Those values match the national NAEP long-term trend results for 13-year-olds, rather than a Utah state series. The chart and this excerpt do not isolate technology as the cause of the score change.
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reading and math, which is really where we want to see our test scores go up. So this is from [clears throat] um a national database of testing called the NAPE and they have been tracking testing in math, reading, science, I think they do music and all sorts of stuff for since the 1970s. So we have a lot of data and it's really interesting. So you'll notice here in general from 19, it's hard to see cuz I blew this up and it's all pixelated. I think this is 71 because this is 80. From about 1970 till
about 2020. Well, actually, we'll go back to 2012. We see some ups and downs, but it's pretty generally making a slow incline, which is what you want. You want education to get a little bit better, a little bit better, and for the kids to constantly be improving in their test scores, and that's what we were getting. This is um, by the way, this is Utah, not national. So in 2012 we kind of got this leveling off and [snorts and clears throat] what we learned is a lot of schools were starting to use computers now. They were not onetoone but we were starting to
introduce them into the classroom and do a lot of learning on the computer. We didn't know that was why we were seeing this leveling out right and we still don't know it for sure but I mean the data is pretty conclusive. [clears throat] 2020 we went one to one and [snorts] we just saw a really sharp news. It went down just in the year from 2020 to 2023 over three years we went down four points which is very significant when you're talking about. [clears throat] So we saw this pretty steady decline and as
you can see when you look across 30 40 years it's a really awful decline. It actually puts us back about where we were in 1970. So our test scores for
The host offers lobbying and outreach help
The host thanks the presenters, offers lobbying help and says she will email the talk to the group. She encourages more conversations with parents.
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taxes to be yours. >> So we we do have to be out of the room in 10 minutes. >> Okay. Thank you first of all for what you're doing. We know this battle. We are actually here to help you. So um you know anything that we can do to help you be successful and understand how to lobby the legislature, we we will help you. So um you know, but wow. I don't know if you all feel like me. I'm thinking this generation is our future. You know, how are we going to thrive as a nation, as
community? Where are we going to be? We cannot afford for our students to just languish in La La Land, which is what this seems to be to me. You know, it's just really, really discouraging and concerning. I mean, I can fix it. [laughter] You can fix it. We know what needs to be done to fix this. absolutely I mean, I it's so absurd. It is so absurd. So, anyway, I could probably go on and on. I mean, not including the things they put in their ears, what it's doing to their brain, you know, all of the is it EMF,
the all of the problems associated with that. It it's endless. And oh my goodness, something needs to be done. I think your vision of having parents do exactly what you said is a real vision and make it happen. You know, just keep doing what you're doing and talking to as many people as possible. We'll send this out to our email list and hopefully people will get on and listen. But I
Full talk
Davis County Conservatives: Tech in Public Schools, September 10, 2026 (77 minutes)