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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a child in my DS's 4th grade class that had to opt out of online math homework and complete printed assignments instead. He also had to draw google slide presentations on paper. He didn't attend a Dave & Busters birthday party bc he wasn't allowed to play video games.

I understand not wanting your child glued to youtube or playing fortnite 24/7, but there is a middle ground. These parents were weird. Don't be that parent.[/quote]
Yes, obviously this is strange.

What is equally bad, however, is that many schools don't actually require their students to WRITE with their HANDS. [b]We already know that typing dulls your thought process and writing is far better when done by hand.[/b] To do this to a developing child is horrible. My kids are in elementary, but there is no way they will go to a school where their notes are taken on computers, their homework is all done on computers from the start, etc. I don't want to raise an uncreative, robotic idiot.[/quote]

Um. Citation?[/quote]

Even if she had a citation, I wouldn’t trust the study.  I’m a lefty who always had trouble hand writing.  I taught myself touch typing through a computer program in 1985 and have typed virtually everything since then.  I went to Yale.  Most people consider my writing pretty good.  Plenty of professional authors also write on computers.  When I have to hand write, the mental energy of physically writing detracts from my thought process, whereas with touch typing the words just flow out.  (I do hate typing with my thumbs, which is what I’m doing now!)[/quote]

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