Homework vs Recreational Screen Split

Not in the sense guidance figures mean. Almost all published recommendations refer to recreational sedentary screen use and explicitly exclude schoolwork, which is why a raw device total is not comparable to them.

It counts as screen time, and treating it as identical to watching content misses something real. Social contact through a screen is doing a job that in-person contact used to do, particularly for teenagers, and cutting it has different consequences.

Because homework screen time expands to fill the time available, and a child working for an hour with thirty per cent drift has done forty minutes of homework and twenty minutes of something else. Both the homework figure and the recreational figure are wrong without it.