[Salman]

All I have to say is — Lawmakers are a piss poor substitute for parental supervision.

[JayGalt]

This relates to computers being used in school noy at home.

[hanamizu]

Lawmakers are a piss poor substitute for parental supervision.

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Retired teacher here. After retirement, I continued substitute teaching at the school were I formerly taught. As the years went by, the amount of what passed for ‘teaching’ increased on Chromebooks. This was a K-8 school and every kid had a Chromebook and with a few exceptions by a few teachers, the majority of class time was spent on the Chromebooks.

Lessons were presented on the Chromebook, nearly always very short, quizzes and tests were taken and graded on the Chromebooks and when all the assignments were completed, the kids were allowed to play approved games on the Chromebooks. No wonder reading skills and attention spans have dropped so much.

And, of course, if a kid didn’t feel like working, he or she could say, my Chromebook isn’t charged, or I can’t log into the lesson and would expect to get to sleep or draw pictures all hour. I found the whole experience maddening.

[oldtech]

How much on TV....that kids would watch.....is for their education? They probably never watch Congressional hearings; not that it would be educational for anybody.