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[quote=Anonymous]Phones need to go. If the kid needs to speak to their parents, they can use a phone in the school office - the way everyone did just 10 years ago when phones were not everywhere.

Another problem is one-to-one laptops. Kids in school are watching movies, playing games and my daughter said a girl she knows spent weeks watching anime porn during Middle School science class (apparently not blocked the way actual porn is). For-profit tech companies, like Google, Microsoft, Lexia and Prodigy Education, have pushed the idea that kids need computers to learn. In fact, writing by hand is much much better for learning than typing and reading on a computer is much worse for learning than reading on paper. They have said that giving computers to poorer communities is an equalizer, but they've found that in poorer communities, kids just end up spending more time playing video games and less time learning.

Plus, with AI, kids aren't even typing their own essays. If you write by hand, you can't cheat as easily. [/quote]

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