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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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 [/quote]

Why? Don’t you want her to be prepared for the real, working world?

What a peculiar thing to want.[/quote]

So there have been not a small number of projects where computers and internet access were passed out to students. It's not just that students who receive computers do worse, they even become less likely to major in *computer science*, probably because of their decline in math skills vis-a-vis the ones lucky enough not to be given free computers.

PISA is less hard core on the subject then I am, perhaps you'll listen to them:

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264239555-en.pdf?expires=1667592471&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=3230E9C944D16147522C833F648DBBBE

'[O]verall, even mesures of [Instructional Computer Technology] use in classrooms and schools show often 
negative associations with student performance. Average reading proficiency, for instance, is not 
higher in countries where studentsmore frequently browse the Internet for schoolwork at school. Figure 
6.4 shows that in countries where it is more common for students to use the Internet at school for schoolwork, 
students’ performance in reading declined, on average. Similarly, mathematics proficiency tends to be
lower in countries/economies where the share of students who use computers in mathematics
lessons is larger (Figure 6.2).
An alternative possibility is that resources invested in equipping schools with digital technology
may have benefitted other learning outcomes, such as “digital” skills, transitions into the labour
market, or other skills different from reading, mathematics and science.
However, the associations with ICT access/use are weak, and sometimes negative, even when
results in digital reading or computer-based mathematics are examined, rather than results in
paper-based tests (Figure 6.2). In addition, even specific digital reading competencies do not
appear to be higher in countries where browsing the Internet for schoolwork is more frequent."[/quote]

Want your kids to do well as computer science majors in college? Teach them formal logic in middle school.
-CS major/current programmer who went to a tiny classical Christian school back in the day[/quote]

I'm the PP to whom you are responding  -- even after so long, I recognize my full-of-quotes style -- and I, myself, am in computers, have a kid that will follow in my footsteps, and am sending him to a Classical Christian school, though one that is no longer as tiny as it was when we started sending him there. [/quote]

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