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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are no advertising ads or access to YouTube or any other site on our Chromebooks

Computers are here to stay.   Instead of seeing them as evil why not try to show your child what you can learn from the internet.  Show him how to identify legitimate sites for information he’s looking for.   Unless he’s going to be using library books for research papers he needs to know how to use it for the right reasons.   [/quote]

What exactly does a fourth grader need to be researching on the internet? We're not talking publishable research here--we're talking about looking up information in the school library or maybe the county library, taking some notes, and writing a report that's probably one page total in length. This can and should be done with books in elementary school. I agree that there is a lot of high-quality content on the Internet, but I wouldn't give my child a highly-distracting device at age 10 and expect them to be mature enough to put aside the distractions and focus on using it to do research.

Furthermore, how many hours per day are dedicated to basic reading, writing, and math, and how many hours are dedicated to conducting research for reports? In fourth grade the majority of the child's time should be spent on fundamentals. [/quote]

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