[Tax-chick]

Jody Ian looks a little light in the loafers. One suspects personal animus.

And surely Bill is being rhetorically disingenuous in saying that he is surprised at an “educator’s” acting in this way.

(rant ON) What are the students doing on the Internet anyway? We got an excellent education, through college, with no more than a word processor. Get the kids off the freeping computers, and have them read dead-tree text and write with pencils. (rant OFF)

[NYer]

What are the students doing on the Internet anyway?

In this situation, the student was preparing for a debate and wanted to provide both views. His initial discovery was that the National Rifle Association’s website was blocked, but not anti-gun websites. But the more websites Lampart tried to reach, the stranger it got. The State Democrat web site was unblocked but the GOP site was blocked. Lampart checked out websites related to abortion. He discovered that the National Right to Life website was blocked, but not Planned Parenthood or NARAL Pro-Choice America’s websites. Lampart had similar results when checking out religious websites. Christianity.com and the Vatican’s web site were both blocked, but Islam-guide.com was not.

Lampart brought this to Fox News where it has now been picked up by others.

[sitetest]

Dear Tax-chick,

“(rant ON) What are the students doing on the Internet anyway? We got an excellent education, through college, with no more than a word processor.”

You had WORD PROCESSORS? We didn't even have TYPEWRITERS!! We didn't even have PAYPYRUS!! We had to pound out our answers in STONE!!

My senior thesis weighed four TONS!!

Misspellings were a B!TCH to correct!!

sitetest

[verga]

Get the kids off the freeping computers, and have them read dead-tree text and write with pencils. (rant OFF)

My students use them for Technical drawing with AutoCAD and Inventor. They receive up to 9 credits from the local community college.

I start them out on the drawing board, after they have mastered the basics we move to the computer. I tell them straight out the only thing the computer does is allow you to make the same mistakes faster.

Companies are demanding technical competency and for my students to be able to compete in college or the job market they need to have these basic skills.