Request textbooks and materials

The strain of remote learning has exacerbated parental worries over the excessive screen time required by BSD’s remote learning program.

Currently, our BSD children are expected to do the vast majority of their work online. This includes the reading of both electronic, as well as electronically scanned school materials, as well as using learning apps—in addition to meeting and seeing other students through the use of Teams.

We, Bellevue residents and taxpayers, would like Bellevue School District to provide ALL STUDENTS with hard/paper copies of the textbooks and workbooks normally used in each classroom.

We would like the option of having all testing materials distributed in hard copy format, when possible.

This would help provide students with screen time relief and help provide a beneficial resource that may help diminishing reading skills that have been shown as a result of online learning/remote learning.

Additionally, we would like teachers to help promote the reading and/or use of these hardcopy text- and workbooks, as an integral part of students’ learning experience.

We expect that each classroom is equipped with these textbooks and other supplies and would like the District to quickly develop a plan for distribution to all students.