Those that have been following along, know that I've been pretty heated about Munster school district purchasing laptops to "rent" to their students. Well, today there was a letter to the editor posted in the paper that was in favor of the ridiculous laptop purchase:
I LOVE the comment posted by Opsman above. (Sorry if it's hard to read from the print screen images... you can follow this link and read all the comments: http://www.nwitimes.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_e17eac38-12a8-5f20-8b1c-15a6f3f68c81.html?mode=comments
The above was my commentary. It just blows my mind that MATH is part of this oh-so-important curriculum that is requiring these laptops. What happened to using pencil and paper and sneaking a calculator under your desk when you get stuck on a problem? That's normal. I can see supplemental education being available on the computer, but not it being the primary source of information on math. Unless these new math classes are going to be teaching our children binary code.... leave them out of Math class all together.
Then Science.... come on. Science is about experimentation and hands on learning. Not watching someone else perform an experiment on the computer. How in the world can SCIENCE be improved by all this? The whole thing is absurd.
What are your thoughts?
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