[Izzy Dunne]

I'm in the computer programming business, and I love a lot of Apple products, for a long time now.

I was even a stockholder for a while (bought at $90, sold at $600, thank you veramuch).

But I'm also a parent, and I don't agree with this.

If you want to make a level playing field, then take such things away from everybody.

I have YET to be convinced that computers can be used to good effect in public school classrooms.

ESPECIALLY for smaller children.

[BikerJoe]

I have YET to be convinced that computers can be used to good effect in public school classrooms.

I think this sums it up nicely...

"Cape Elizabeth High Says The Hell With Trying To Educate Anybody, Let’s Hand Out 10 Inch TVs And Be Done With It | The Rumford Meteor"

Rumford Meteor

[publius911]

I have YET to be convinced that computers can be used to good effect in public school classrooms.

For more documentation than you or any other rational human being needs to see the extent of the real problem, check out...

The Dumbest Generation, Mark Bauerlein, Jeremy P. Archer/Penguin, member of the Penguin Group, New York. Chapters 2-4.

2. The New Bibliophobes
3. Screen Time.
4. On Line learning and Non-Learning.

[BfloGuy]

I have YET to be convinced that computers can be used to good effect in public school classrooms.

I've come around to thinking that they can but only with serious thought and well-designed programs. And even then, computers are just convenient [and efficient] content-delivery tools.

But I agree with you to the extent that computers are simply handed out as replacements for books and library research.

That will do nothing at all.