Best school in Northern VA for traditional, non-screen-based education

[Anonymous]

We like more traditional education for our daughter, one in which she won't be on an iPad or a Chromebook, but will work with good, old-fashioned books, papers and pencils. Suggestions? Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We like more traditional education for our daughter, one in which she won't be on an iPad or a Chromebook, but will work with good, old-fashioned books, papers and pencils. Suggestions? Thanks

Me too but we're into non-book education and want a school that works with stone tablets or scrolls.

[Anonymous]

Parochial school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parochial school

They use technology. Try to find a fundie school that believes computers are evil

[Anonymous]

Many schools use computers but there are definitely those who rely more on them than others. You probably want a school that uses technology as a tool along woth textbooks, workbooks, paper and pencil, etc. ratther than a technology dependent school. You’re more likely to find that at christian schools. Also google classical educaton schools in your area. I do think it is foolish for children to learn to be dependnet on technology which is inherently so fragile and unsecure. Hope you find what you’re looking for.

[Anonymous]

Serious question: what are you going to do when your kid goes to college? All colleges use technology. All of them. You want to train your kid to use tech safely and correctly now rather than hope all works out later.

[Anonymous]

Just buy your kids some workbooks if this is so important to you. Even the schools that require textbooks barely use them.

[Anonymous]

Waldorf school. No technology at all, very tactile learning

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serious question: what are you going to do when your kid goes to college? All colleges use technology. All of them. You want to train your kid to use tech safely and correctly now rather than hope all works out later.

This OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serious question: what are you going to do when your kid goes to college? All colleges use technology. All of them. You want to train your kid to use tech safely and correctly now rather than hope all works out later.

Children retain information better when in print. We can raise technologically literate children without teaching them to be hopelessly dependent on it. Not OP.

[Anonymous]

There's a happy medium. Most schools use some kind of tech but you can find one that doesn't have the kids completing all their homework on slides and posting it.

However, you need to clarify what you mean by "traditional" education.

[Anonymous]

Waldorf schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serious question: what are you going to do when your kid goes to college? All colleges use technology. All of them. You want to train your kid to use tech safely and correctly now rather than hope all works out later.

But you don't need to do that training over thirteen years for multiple hours a day. And in any case they're getting very little training in their highly equipped computer classrooms of the future -- maybe if you're lucky the teacher has the kids spending some time on a free website with learn-how-to-type games?

I work in educational technology and can say with some confidence that nearly all tech used at the basic level is a distraction. Hence my kids are at an entirely tech-free private elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We like more traditional education for our daughter, one in which she won't be on an iPad or a Chromebook, but will work with good, old-fashioned books, papers and pencils. Suggestions? Thanks

Me too but we're into non-book education and want a school that works with stone tablets or scrolls.

I’ve heard stone tablets are pretty addictive. We prefer teaching using smoke signals.

[Anonymous]

Can you be more specific about location?