School-Wide Technology Ban

[leontief]

Frankly, parents who get pissed when their spoiled brats' cell phones are taken away can shove it. Cell phones are a privilege, not a necessity.

Same goes for computers and internet access. If you start relying on those you could just as well get rid of the teachers or the school itself. To this day, I regret having heavily relied on calculators to do simple math for me because the convenience prevented me from developing that skill. And since I've exclusively started using my computer to write things down I've lost my ability to write legibly.

What's stopping you from leaning that skill now? Or going back to writing things down by hand?

 

[Andeavor]

What's stopping you from leaning that skill now? Or going back to writing things down by hand?

I've always had dyscalculia and I never seem to be prepared to calculate numbers such as when I'm at the store or otherwise don't have time to sit down and go through it step by step.

As for the writing things down, I take to-do notes all the time but they are so few and when I have to write a letter or notes I end up scanning them to send them via email or archive them so it's easier to type them down.

 

[iJohnHenry]

Digital recorder + Voice to Text program = Notes.

But no toys or Internet to play with.