Nothing will upgrade a blackboard and chalk and textbooks
pens, pencils and notepaper...
a well stocked school or public library
and a lot of study time...
Playing games is the least of the problems, media is keeping quit how many are “lost or broken”. Only in California, the insanity never ends.
“Nothing will upgrade a blackboard and chalk and textbooks
pens, pencils and notepaper...
a well stocked school or public library
and a lot of study time...”
While my children aren’t thrilled, I’m glad they have to “show their work” for math; calculators save time for people who understand concepts, but are a crutch for those that don’t.
Years ago, before iPads and laptops, I saw a report of a brawl that had erupted in a skool study hall in Philadelphia. The reason? A disagreement over what program was to be on the TV.
We've been sliding down the slippery slope for quite a while.
In my day we had discovered a way to hack the blackboard, chalk, and textbooks.
It was called playing hooky.