SDUSD Eyes Screen Time Ban as Machado Leads Padres to Sixth Walk-Off Win — and a Housing Market Warning
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San Diego Unified's Board of Education took up a landmark screen time resolution Tuesday night that, if passed, would ban YouTube streaming and non-instructional gaming on student devices district-wide beginning August 10, 2026 — the first day of the new school year. Computer carts would be removed entirely from Transitional Kindergarten classrooms. Subsequent phases over the following year would tighten screen time outside instructional windows, expand parent controls, and require annual review of instructional software including AI tools. The vote result was not confirmed at production time, but the policy direction is grounded in research linking excessive device use to attention and developmental issues in younger students. Implementation across a district serving roughly 100,000 students in roughly six weeks would represent a significant operational lift.
On the field Tuesday night, Manny Machado delivered a first-pitch walk-off single to center field in the bottom of the tenth inning, scoring Jackson Merrill from second base for a 7-6 San Diego victory over the Atlanta Braves at Petco Park. It was the Padres' sixth walk-off win of the season and Machado's third consecutive game-deciding contribution — he also hit the solo home run in Monday's 1-0 Game 1 win. Mason Miller threw two scoreless innings of relief, his first time completing two innings as a Padre. San Diego enters tonight's series finale at 8:40 p.m. having taken a 2-0 lead over Atlanta, which sits at 48-30 and first place in the NL East. Left-hander JP Sears starts for San Diego.
The region's housing market warrants a closer look than the headline number suggests. The Greater San Diego Association of Realtors data shows a $900,000 countywide median flat for roughly 12 consecutive months through May 2026 — a figure widely characterized as stability. But Zillow separately pegs the average San Diego home value at $1,007,800, down 2.3 percent year-over-year through May 31, and Redfin's earlier spring data showed the countywide median down approximately 3 percent year-over-year. Active inventory has crossed 6,000 homes for the first time this year, and price reductions are at their highest level in months.
The flat median may be masking a compositional shift: if lower-priced homes are transacting more frequently while higher-end properties sit, the midpoint can hold even as the broader market softens. Three indicators to watch in coming weeks: July pending sales figures from GSDAR — a drop below long-term averages would signal genuine demand erosion; the rate of price reductions on active listings over the next 30 days; and the county's fall housing report to the Board of Supervisors, which will have to reckon with whatever the summer data shows. The county's $93.1 million affordable housing allocation in the FY 2027 budget was calibrated against projected market conditions — a faster-than-anticipated softening would complicate that math.