Continued Opposition To Laptops in Schools

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday August 31, 2006 @07:56AM from the grinding-for-faction-in-math-class dept.

theskeptic writes "The WSJ has an article about opposition to programs that provide laptops to 6-8th grade kids. Detractors say that the kids are wasting too much time online browsing dangerous sites, instant messaging friends, and posting to Myspace. Parents are worried that serious learning is being neglected in the quest to 'dazzle up presentations with fancy fonts instead of digging through library books.' Some parents however are 'enthusiastic laptop proponents,' one saying the laptop has helped her twelve-year-old son 'master critical professional skills like how to compile a PowerPoint presentation.'" Gaaah.

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Re:Children.... by Gotung · 2006-08-31 08:17 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yea and throw out the pen and paper too. They should be writing with sticks in the dirt!! Why is the parent modded insightful? It's "insightful" people like Parker703 that forced me to waste a ton of time learning to write in cursive when I was a kid. I don't know a single person that still uses that form of writing. Children should be taught to use the tools they will be using in life, those are the "basics."