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A total turnoff.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-APR-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A total turnoff.(Schools)(Students battle temptation as they try to go a whole week without television)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Anne Williams The Register-Guard

The 22 students who signed up for Janet Morrison's "Turn Off Your TV" class at Corridor Alternative Elementary had the best of intentions: They'd go the whole week screen-free.

No TV. No computers.

But it's not easy to stay on the wagon when your little brother refuses to give up cartoons. Or when your mother insists on watching the news. Or when another Corridor teacher shows a video in your homeroom class.

Third-grader Logan Sexton has been bombarded with such temptations all week. His parents almost always have the computer on, he said, "and my sister just can't go without TV for a week."

Nonetheless, Logan and his classmates largely have steered clear of screens this week, which is National TV-Turnoff Week, a 20-year-old campaign by a nonprofit organization...

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