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[quote=Anonymous]We moved our kid to tech-free classical school.  Covering the textbooks with brown paper was the highlight.  Textbooks, workbooks and notebooks....  parents: you do not know what you are missing.  Your children's education and your family life will be better when you can help your kids with homework, peruse the chapter to see what they are learning and actually complete assignments even if the wifi goes down.  Good old-fashioned reading, writing (in script too!) and arithmetic.

And I don't buy the trope of "kids need to learn how to use technology!"  It's EVERYWHERE.  They can't watch cartoons without getting to the kids homepage and their profile.  Can't order a happy meal without going through the kiosk.  Trust me, your cherubs are NOT missing some tech boat by being in tech free school.  In fact - they will come out FAR SUPERIOR to your copy / paste, dictate to text, google, AI kid.  I've seen 5th graders reciting Longfellow from memory.  I've seen 7th graders reciting Patrick Henry's great speech.  I've seen 4th grader's recite Rudyard Kipling.  Do they understand every word?  No.  But they get quite a bit and are exposed to some of the great culture and literature from Western civilization and how we got here.  Your edtech / app readings CANNOT even begin to touch on the richness books can provide.  [/quote]

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