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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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Originally Posted by b1crunch
Agreed, but I'm struggling to come up with any logically good reasons for why school kids wouldn't need computers. The article was probably from the early 2000's? That just my guess though.
Regardless, I can't think of any good rationale she could have made, besides less funding for education, therefore schools can't afford computers.
It's pretty obvious that our society today is dominated by technology and kids from the past few decades would have benefitted greatly from computers in the classroom.
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Looking at the piece and thinking back to that time I don't necessarily think this is as extreme as it is made out to be in the Twitter post. I graduated high school in 2000 and computer literacy was really at a very early stage. At that time there wasn't much commercially available software that was easy to use and beneficial to young elementary school kids that would help with early learning. Based on that the argument that computers are not needed is pretty reasonable. Obviously the progression of technology and literacy exploded in the 2000s and the landscape was quite a bit different just a few years after this opinion piece was printed.